[Coco] Nature magazine article on "running old code"

[Neil Cherry]

On 8/24/20 1:52 PM, John Guin wrote:
> Mostly written from a reproducibility of legacy science experiments point of view, but
> does go into  some hardware and software challenges of getting "old code" running on
> modern machines.
> 
> https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02462-7
> 
> (The image of Mac OS running Windows 3.1 in order to get some old Visual Basic code
> running is terrific!)
> 
> Enjoy!
> 

Old code is easy with an emulator. Now getting old code to run on old hardware is
tricky. Anyone living in the embedded world can tell you horror stories (like opening
an ST506 hard drive to un stick the head or spin up the platters). Some of the envs
would make a coal mine look clean.

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