On Wednesday 01 June 2011 18:57:44 Arioch wrote:
> В письме от Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:08:58 +0400, Adam Moffett
>
> <[email protected]> сообщал:
> > It may be more practical to migrate that data to something newer than to
> > try keeping the same program running forever. Even if the data is not
> > stored in an easily decipherable format you could have a temp retype it.
>
> yes, indeed. However...
>
> The program is about accounting.
> It was targeted to SOHO, and has very little rules, hard setting for
> workflow and such.
> It did not get the steam and disappeared.
>
> Big players targeted large-scale companies, making "platforms", and
> relying on value-adding resellers, making "configurations" (set of rules
> and sub-programs) usable for SOHO.
> They were not interested to this program with little niche.
>
> Up to the point, that some documents, needed as process originators, in
> latter, were not required in that SOHO program at all.
> Less the company - less the formalism.
>
>
> And the laws for accounting changed many times in those 10 years. It is no
> less spaghetti, than phone operators plans...
>
> My mom knows nothing about programming, i know nothing about accounting
> and myriad of laws and their editions.
> I don't think she remembers exactly all those gotchas and edges in
> 10-years-ago laws too :-)
>
> Sincerely, i think that chances that those data would ever be requested,
> are invisibly minor.
> But the accountant fever just says "NO! NO! DON'T EVER DARE!"
>
> And even if some tool would allow migration, there would be no sane way to
> check that migration was really full and accurate.
>
> And that old box... with mainboard whose PS/2 jack sometimes sounds like
> sparks...
> IF one day it would REALLY bee needed and it would refuse to boot...
> I hope never :-)
>
> But still....
> VirtualBox ? VMWare Server (it's free AFAIR) ? DosBox ?
> I'd prefer VBox, if there be standard way to put required data into those
> last 13 BIOS bytes :-)
Since it is a old DOS program, have you thought about reverse engenieering it?
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