Re: OFF: ZIP vs GZ was:Re: [f-cpu] F-CPU vs ALPHA

[Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk@jetnet.ab.ca>]

Juergen Goeritz wrote:
> But they all run under Linux! if you really want to live
> that 'dusty old CD' stuff you have to get the source code
> anyway because it's the only way!

No a lot of the old computers the SOURCE has been lost and
running a emulator for a machine that last ran in the 1980's ...
1970's ... 1960's and even the 1950's is the only way for people
to have a feel for what the old machines where like. 
> By the way, some bank companies relying on Windows programs
> may run into these problems already today. Imagine you used
> some Windows 95 stuff and some M**osoft tools to compute your
> results and you have to backup and be able to re-compute
> everything of the last 10 years...

The mind set of windows - Thy shall not BACK UP or COPY thy
system BUT forever BUY new systems from the unholy GOD
MicroSoft.
 
> That means to have about 5 generations of PCs working - ...
> ... - quite a museum though. :-)
Ben.
PS. Linux you can back up off a boot floppy.
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