[Froedlich]

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.

[simgt]

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

[contingencies]

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

[ex-aws-dude]

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