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Re:Japanese textile factory still uses tape cassette and pun... by hulitu on Monday July 10, 2023 @04:06AM (#36663374)
Just try to compile a vi from 20 years ago on a modern computer.
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Re:Japanese textile factory still uses tape cassette and pun... by zokier on Monday July 10, 2023 @04:26AM (#36663505)
20 years ago was 2003, four years after C99. First x86-64 CPUs were released 20 years ago. Compiling 20 year old C codebase should not be an issue at all if it was half-decent to begin with.

Compiling pre-ANSI-C and pre-POSIX codebases might have challenges, but standardization has really gotten us lot of stability here.

I'd expect conservatively written C99/POSIX code to be usable certainly for another 20 years, there is just so much inertia there

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

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Re:Japanese textile factory still uses tape cassette and pun... by jrockway on Monday July 10, 2023 @04:19AM (#36663464)
According to Wikipedia that was a problem ... 20 years ago. That version compiles today. It's called "Traditional vi" and the Sourceforge site where it's hosted doesn't have a valid certificate so I didn't visit it.
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