Oldest Supported Software?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday December 20, 2003 @09:13AM 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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What about KnorrVector? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-20 09:58 · Score: 0, Troll

I remember this CAD-precursor from my days in Berkeley in the late 60s. As I recall they still have two terminals in order to support the astro-physics models published then. So I guess they're still supported?
Re:Old software, but what about the code? by DerekLyons · 2003-12-20 14:12 · Score: 0, Troll

If it aint broke why fix it?
Because in the Geek Universe if it's more than an hour old, it's ancient.
However, in the real world (and not just in corporations) stability, predictability, and performance as the important metrics, not coolness.