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by ziaddotcom
1982 days ago
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I agree, and I think this talk and HN post make a good compliment to the Retrocomputing article and discussion on HN a few days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25714719 Jonathan does a better job than I did explaining the premise of how retrocomputing isn't just a means to nostalgia, but a means to make sure and verifying we've improved personal computer hardware/software since the initial boom. Emulators don't give us the insight into the whole stack or understanding on the true reliability of these old systems. As Jonathan says, if our laptops today aren't capable of 99.999 percent uptime, then none of the software runnning on it can be either. In the days of the Amiga or the Archimedes, it was quite possible to boot entire app or os/app combo and just leave the computer on indefinitely, without it crashing itself even if untouched. |
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