decompilation as archiving?

In article <457059E4.6B05CE66 at rain.org>, Marvin Johnston <marvin at rain.org> writes: Its still around and can work on Windows code now. There are a variety of such programs and this is what got me thinking about such a beast for vintage computers. Cases where the application source (or OS source!) has been lost. Someone asked me in private email why I'd want to do this -- I consider the source code just as an important historical artifact as the compiled binaries and physical hardware. For the same reason that people want schematics for vintage hardware, having source code for vintage software is also useful. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>