Having patched a lot of binaries myself over the years (mostly many years ago), I have sympathy for the programmers who were tasked with doing the fixes.
1 posted on
11/20/2017 9:43:39 PM PST by
dayglored
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2 posted on
11/20/2017 9:44:43 PM PST by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who do not.
3 posted on
11/20/2017 9:50:59 PM PST by
fhayek
To: dayglored
But now M$ will end up with crap code...oh wait...
4 posted on
11/20/2017 9:51:15 PM PST by
bigbob
(People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
To: dayglored
They probably have the source code, just no one who can follow all the tricks and gimmicks the original programmers used then tweaked over time as newer versions of the OS and newer hardware eliminated the need for such things.
7 posted on
11/20/2017 10:09:45 PM PST by
Rashputin
(Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
To: dayglored
What the Hell are you people talking about? All I want is for my putter to start up so I can get to FR!
10 posted on
11/20/2017 10:47:14 PM PST by
TaMoDee
(Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2018!)
To: dayglored
used to do this for NCR back in the day. it is indeed an art.
12 posted on
11/20/2017 10:55:18 PM PST by
dadfly
To: dayglored
Hopefully they lost source code to PowerPoint.
16 posted on
11/21/2017 2:10:40 AM PST by
steve8714
(Primary ALL Republican senators. Yeah, all.)
To: dayglored
Such efforts to avoid not ruining the EQNEDT32.EXE binary are time-consuming, and no sane developer would have taken this route if he still had access to the source code.
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I worked at a huge computer company in operating systems, and there were a couple of guys who would have preferred to fix every defect this way.
21 posted on
11/21/2017 5:23:58 AM PST by
Moonman62
(Make America Great Again!)
To: dayglored
Microsoft is now an Indian owned and operated company. The idiocy of Indian programmers is well known in the software industry.
22 posted on
11/21/2017 5:25:12 AM PST by
CodeToad
(CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
To: dayglored
Yeah, especially if there are 2.2E145 versions of the source code, as in Microbloat stuff.
23 posted on
11/21/2017 5:44:08 AM PST by
GingisK
To: dayglored
A favorite...
-PJ
29 posted on
11/21/2017 11:52:13 AM PST by
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