oldest software in use?

[Jerry Davis]

On Thursday 30 November 2006 09:02, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

Well, I worked for DEC all through the 80's.
I still like to use the game of Adventure.
That was written by Don Woods in the early to mid 70's.

Jerry

> I was was wondering what is the oldest software in use.
>
> What is the oldest software that you use?
>
> I sometimes play xvier (no version) from July 1992.
>
> And I sometimes use mm (metamail) 2.7 from Feb. 1994. But I have recent
> patches for metamail so that doesn't count for me.
>
> I also sometimes use GNU ed 0.2 from Nov. 1994. It has a patch for the
> info file from maybe five years ago too. But now ed has been revived and a
> new release was made within past couple weeks.
>
> Another old program I use is findutils "find" 4.1 from Nov. 1994. But I
> also have various recent patches for it.
>
> And I use mpage 2.5 from November 1997. But I know mpage has a recent
> versions so I may update soon.
>
> I also sometimes use xearth 1.1 from Nov. 1999 with a patch from 2002 but
> I am now using xplanet instead. And I also use psutils p17 from Jan. 2000.
> And I sometimes use sgmltools-lite 3.0.3 from Jun. 2001.
>
> I also looked at the standard tools I use (under NetBSD) but everything
> except uname appears to have been updated within last few years. So I use
> "uname" from Nov. 1998. But that is not a good example as it is not
> released by itself. (I didn't look specifically at coreutils source to
> compare with that.)
>
> Some of my customers use BSD/OS versions from mid 1990's with newer
> updates of some services, but still lot of software from mid to early
> 1990's still in use.
>
> Some of my customers run real qmail 1.03 which had last release in June
> 1998. (New patches are available and netqmail is probably becoming more
> used now.)
>
> What is the oldest software you use?
>
> What is the oldest software used at work?
>
> Is there newer versions available? If so, why use old?
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
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