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From: uj797@victoria.tc.ca (Arthur T. Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors,comp.programming,comp.software-eng,soc.libraries.talk,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Museum of Computer Software
Date: 6 Feb 2002 21:48:38 -0800
Organization: Victoria Telecommunity Network
Message-ID: <3c621536@news.victoria.tc.ca>
References: <F4k88.825$95.63828@news>
Summary: The world needs not one but redundantly several museums of computer software.
Keywords: archives, human-computer interaction, HCI, libraries, museums, software engineering

"shockdiamond" <dorsw3@nalgon.net> wrote on Thu, 07 Feb 2002:
>
>    Perhaps the field has yet to produce anything worth memorializing...

If software isn't worth preserving, then nothing is.

Programmers ought to write their code with an eye to
its preservation.

Computer hardware museums ought to house small-space but
logically enormous libraries of all preservable software
that once ran on the machines being preserved.

Libraries should become repositories of antique software.

The time is now before it is too late.

http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/jsaimind.html AI at your service.
>
>
> "Arthur T. Murray" <mentifex@scn.org> wrote in message
> news:662dfbc2.0202060326.2d26e415@posting.google.com...
> The very concept of a Museum of Computer Software
> is causing cranial explosions among the diehard
> living fossils of news:alt.folklore.computers where
> the last survivors of the dawn of computer science
> wring their carpal syndrome wrists about bitrot.
>
> Why should the computer science avatars be so special?
> The forests are disappearing; every week dozens of
> exotic plant and animal species are dying out forever;
> millennia-old human languages disappear day-by-day.
>
> Who is really going to care about the loss of software
> marginalia in the centuries to come, except for maybe
> http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/mind4th.html -- AI Minds?
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