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chasd00 on Nov 25, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Oldest software system in continuous use

Isn’t that tide prediction analog computer implemented with ropes and pulleys and invented before electricity still running in some places?

ben_w on Nov 25, 2022 [–]

While that might count as “a computer”, it definitely doesn’t count as “software”.

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