On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 02:44:51PM -0700, J. Forster wrote: > Very true, except it's more like 5-10 years.
These days John is absolutely right... likely none of the developers, none of the equipment, perhaps not even the corporate shell of the division or department that designed the product and wrote the software survives. Probably the source code was thrown out with the old servers that were sold for scrap... or just carted off to be shredded with all the other paper and electronic records... Horror stories abound about organizations that need to make some minor patch or change to source code of a popular product for some important customer even just a few years after its release and nobody can find the right source code or the right build environment (compilers, libraries, OS etc and the hardware they ran on) or if they can be found it takes many many hours of expensive time and talent to reconstruct the right stuff to actually make a code image that matches what is shipping. -- Dave Emery N1PRE/AE, d...@dieconsulting.com DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass 02493 "An empty zombie mind with a forlorn barely readable weatherbeaten 'For Rent' sign still vainly flapping outside on the weed encrusted pole - in celebration of what could have been, but wasn't and is not to be now either." _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.