Yeah, 'artifacts' like CP/M, Unix, VMS, MS-DOS, OS/2, MS Windows (all flavors), QNX etc etc.. there are so many of them... Even 'free' doesn't save them from the bin like NetBSD 0.8 is basically 'lost' although you can kind of jam in the parts from 386BSD and what is left in CVS...
I guess that is the larger challenge, unless you run it you really don't even know what is there, and to assume that things like CVS histories are complete.... well let's just say you may be in for a shock! On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 5:45 PM, dott.Piergiorgio <[email protected]> wrote: > Il 20/12/2010 22:26, Jason Stevens ha scritto: > > hmmmm...... > > Granted that my mindset is mainly humanist (Historian variety) I put this > somewhat rhetoric, somewhat socratic, note in a form of a question: > > what if someone get how to read the Linear A script and the archaeological > and historian communities ends totally disappointed because gives an far > inferior understanding of the Minoan civilization than the tablet written in > the best-known Linear B ? > > This seems to me the destiny, if not doom, of closed-source OS & software: > the dustbin of History. > > Best regards from Italy, > dott. Piergiorgio. > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
