One of my favourite things in fiction is Vernor Vinge's discussion of programmer-archaeologistshttps://twitter.com/devonzuegel/status/1137386992398766081 …
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I'm not sure what odds I'd give on Unix time still being widely used in a thousand years. But they're certainly a lot higher than 0.1%.
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Incidentally, the level of backward compatibility of systems offered by major companies & products (Intel, AMD, Microsoft, Apple, Linux, Chrome, Firefox etc) is quite amazing.
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What will be the appendix of the computing systems of tomorrow?
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Yes, but the price is huge. Unneded complexity. Systems we can no longer understand. And very inefficient use of cpu and memory.
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