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Oldest Supported Software?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the had-to-walk-uphill-to-school-both-ways-in-the-snow dept.

Dave Santek writes "In development since the early 1970s, the McIDAS [Man computer Interactive Data Access System] software celebrated its 30th anniversary in October 2003. McIDAS is used to integrate and visualize weather information. The software was originally run on a Datacraft /5 and has gone through 4 major hardware configuration changes over the last 30 years. It is a supported software package that remains in use at more than 100 locations worldwide. A history of the first 25 years (pdf) is available. A freeware version of the software is also available."

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  1. EMACS by smittyoneeach · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    has got to loom large in the discussion.
    If only the text editor in that operating system had friendlier keyboard shortcuts...

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