https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/14/open-source-software-in-the-re/ Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:45:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/14/open-source-software-in-the-re/#comment-548501 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:45:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/14/open-source-software-in-the-re/#comment-548501 FreeDOS is the way software should be – even though DOS is no longer mainstream, with FreeDOS people still have access to the assembler and the code to make any modifications they need to support their legacy systems. I’ve still got a few copies of ancient GCC compilers and some now rather dated Linux kernels. Some people even resurrected truly ancient versions of GCC and Linux (from over 15 years ago) just to see if they can still do a build on a modern machine. (Of course they can.)

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