The internet is an incredibly hostile place for unpatched devices. I'd be nervous about booting any older operating system in a VM and getting online.
Maybe there's a sufficient age where it's safe again? I'm not sure if an MS-DOS VM would get automatically pwned today.
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Test code is total: we require it to always terminate or it's a failure! It also typically has 100% line and branch coverage.
I feel way less nervous about refactoring tests, you can always just run them.
I'm sufficiently nervous about running rm (especially with globbing) that I end up doing `mv PATTERN /tmp` most of the time.
It depresses me when a dev gets nervous about changing code in a project they're involved in. If they're not I'm control, no-one is!