From: wb@freebie.xs4all.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Subject: [TUHS] Whence 1st Edition Unix Kernel Assembly?
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:27:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080425062750.GC3258@freebie.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080424213916.GP92261@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
Quoting Peter Jeremy, who wrote on Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 07:39:17AM +1000 ..
> 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
Yeah... can you say "Microsoft Office" files?
--
Wilko Bulte wilko at FreeBSD.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-25 6:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-23 6:03 Warren Toomey
2008-04-23 6:07 ` Warren Toomey
2008-04-23 18:27 ` Tim Newsham
2008-04-24 0:07 ` Warren Toomey
2008-04-24 1:57 ` Tim Newsham
2008-04-24 6:04 ` Tim Newsham
2008-04-24 16:34 ` Al Kossow
2008-04-24 16:44 ` Tim Newsham
2008-04-24 17:07 ` Tim Bradshaw
2008-04-24 17:16 ` Al Kossow
2008-04-24 17:27 ` Michael Kerpan
2008-04-24 17:30 ` Tim Newsham
2008-04-24 17:35 ` lyricalnanoha
2008-04-24 18:15 ` ckeck
2008-04-24 18:40 ` Al Kossow
2008-04-24 18:57 ` M. Warner Losh
2008-04-24 19:02 ` Larry McVoy
2008-04-24 18:44 ` Milo Velimirovic
2008-04-24 21:39 ` Peter Jeremy
2008-04-25 6:27 ` Wilko Bulte [this message]
2008-04-24 17:38 ` Wilko Bulte
2008-04-24 18:39 ` Milo Velimirovic
2008-04-24 19:35 ` John Foust
2008-04-24 17:45 ` Al Kossow
2008-04-24 18:07 ` John Cowan
[not found] <200804241753.KAA02899@mist.magic.com>
2008-04-28 10:48 ` Warren Toomey
2008-04-28 16:52 ` Tim Newsham
2008-04-28 14:15 James A. Markevitch
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