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I'm mostly retired now, and my paying work involves maintenance on proprietary inventory and billing software written in a 1960s language in a dialect that became unsupported in the mid-1980s. And it runs in MS-DOS.

I've mostly set aside the languages and tools I used to use, and I'm learning Haiku's variant of C++ to write some native-mode Haiku application software.





Holy fuck. What can possibly require maintenance on software this old? Industrial metalworking machines maybe?

Industrial metalworking machines can typically be upgraded to modern controllers fairly easily.

Are you able to compile it on a modern computer or do you have to work on it in MS-DOS?



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