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In article <6uran1$cak$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU>,
Alan Morgan <amorgan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> No, but the lifespan of software is still pretty short when compared
> with the lifespan of a book, piece of music, or painting.  A book that
> was written 50 years ago is still perfectly readable and useful today.
> Paintings can be hundreds of years old and still be appreciated as
> much today as they were when they were painted.  I'd be willing to bet
> that in 50 years you won't be able to run Windows 98 on any computer
> than doesn't come from the collection of some computer archivist.

I don't think you're right, because of emulation.

For example, there's something of a TRS-80 revival going on right now.
A high quality TRS-80 emulator is distributed as part of Debian, and
the original folks who made the best OS for the TRS-80 M4 have
released the assembly language source for that OS -- it's still
getting use, and on my DEC Alpha no less.

I don't think I'll ever stop playing the occasional game of
Civilization (the original).  As time goes on it'll be under emulators
like Bochs, eventually running on my wristwatch, but I'll keep running it.
-- 
Doug DeJulio                         | mailto:ddj@aisb.org
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