From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: peterjeremy@optushome.com.au (Peter Jeremy) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:39:17 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] Whence 1st Edition Unix Kernel Assembly? In-Reply-To: References: <20080424000736.GA48312@minnie.tuhs.org> <4810B69F.1000500@bitsavers.org> <143F6603-5D78-4C0E-B159-F421657356C9@tfeb.org> <4810C050.3030507@bitsavers.org> <8dd2d95c0804241027x3280724aq8d48bdf044b690a2@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20080424213916.GP92261@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 07:30:58AM -1000, Tim Newsham wrote: >> I guess we need to start archiving all software on acid-free archival >> paper, then. It's the only way it'll survive. > >And not necessarily in human readable form -- how about some format >that is very easy to ocr with minimal errors and error correcting codes? PGP successfully did this (primarily to work-around US crypto laws): http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=7024 Archiving digital data is actually a major problem: Not only do you need to be able to physically read the media but you need to be able to interpret the bits that you read. This probably means access to the software that was used to create it (more data to archive) running on the relevant OS (yet more data) and hardware (you might be able to emulate this if someone archive a good-enough description). -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 195 bytes Desc: not available URL: