Doug Henwood wrote: > Well no kidding. That's why I said "theoretically." As long as you have a > machine, though, you can run the software. Until recently I was running a > Mac OS 9 statistical program from the late 1980s. That's not forever, but 20 > years isn't exactly overnight either. > > But as the poet said, "Wir gehen wie Rauch vor starkem Wind," if I'm > remembering my German plague poetry correctly. Or, if you prefer Kansas: > "All we are is dust in the wind."
some software works forever. I swear that the software in the HP desktop calculator I used in the 1970s in high school is the same as what runs my HP engineering calculator (except that I can't save to a card). But on average, in general, software goes away pretty quickly. And it's the latter which counts in national accounting. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
