decompilation as archiving?

[Richard]

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?
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