30 May
2006
30 May
'06
11:12 p.m.
On Tuesday 30 May 2006 17:49, Liam Proven wrote:
On 5/30/06, Billy Pettit <Billy.Pettit at
wdc.com> wrote:
Or, we can keep the source around[0], and write things in fairly
portable languages, and modify them as necessary to run on each
successive new technology[1], where necessary.
0. That implies that we have the source by one way or another, of
course.
1. One might conclude then that open-source software has a longer
potential life-span than close-source things do.
Pat
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Some time, we have to let go and upgrade as much
as it is
unaesthetic or displeasing. When?
[...]
One day, future computers won't run our current "modern" software.
But we can run the emulator on an emulator when that happens!