Adobe and MIT Create Algorithm to Optimize Old Source Code for Modern Hardware Specs

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Adobe and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have teamed up for Project Helium, an initiative to help developers update older software for modern-day hardware. 

Software rot, also called bit-rot, is a term used to describe software that was abandoned by its creator or was not updated to support the latest hardware specifications on which it runs. It is a common problem, not only for abandoned or neglected open source projects, but also for bigger, closed-source…

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