decompilation as archiving?

[David Griffith]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Richard wrote:

> Has anyone considered decompilation (producing sources from binaries)
> as a way of archiving system or application software that is defunct?
>
> I know lots of people have disassembled ROM listings and created
> commented ASM listings from the ROM, but what about larger systems
> where hand-disassembly is impractical?

What binaries in particular are you thinking of?

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