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- From: jfoster@everest.srd.bt.co.uk (John Foster)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Need references on moving old code to new platform
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.103901.21309@srd.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 10:39:01 GMT
- References: <1992Aug15.005850.14463@rtsg.mot.com>
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- From article <1992Aug15.005850.14463@rtsg.mot.com>, by king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist):
- > Does anyone know of any references which discuss moving old code from
- > one hardware platform to another? I'm not looking for books on how to
- > write portable code; those are a dime a dozen. I'm looking for
- > something which discusses moving a large existing body of poorly
- > written and documented code to a completely new platform.
-
- A very good place to start might be:
- Harry M. Sneed. "Bank Application Reengineering & Conversion at the
- Union Bank of Switzerland". In Proc. IEEE Conf. Software Maintenance,
- Sorrento, Italy, Oct 15-17, 1991, pp 60-72.
-
- Harry specialises in this sort of project, and this case study is unusual in
- that the customer has been very cooperative in allowing the details to
- be written up. Other articles have been published on the same project:
- see references in the above paper.
-
- Hope it helps
- John Foster
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- John Foster
- Systems Research Division, BT Labs, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich IP5 7RE, UK
- jfoster@srd.bt.co.uk fax: (+44) 473 643019
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