In message <[email protected]>, Bob Camp writes:

>It would have to be a "port to new tools and pray" effort. 

That is actually not too bad usually.

Most software from that era is written in Assembler.

The trouble starts with stuff like the HP8568 where the firmware was
written in a home-grown ALGOL dialect.

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