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Woohoo, this sounds like it should be fun.
However, something saddens me about this retro boom and that is that it's probably going to be temporary.
The retro boom is here now because there was a boom in computing in the 70s and 80s and there are now a lot of men (it's mostly men) in the 40ish-60ish age range who want to play with (a) the computers they had when they were young or (b) the computers they could not afford or get access to when they were young.
There is also an associated thing of the same age range of men who want to play with big iron computers that were vastly unaffordable when they were young (or which were legendary but just out of fashion when they were young) but which they can now afford or otherwise gain some kind of access to via emulation. E.g. SGI, Sun, Vaxen, and so on.
But this generation will age out (as the saying goes). Will the retro demand for these 70s/80s (and some 90s) machines continue? Or will "retro" come to mean 2000s and 2010s for a new generation? Will retro even continue to be a fashion at all?
I want retro to last forever, to preserve working history for future generations. But it won't, will it. 
As an example of a parallel retro fascination, interest in stream trains has lasted well for more than one generation but I also wonder if that sort of thing will die out too.
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With emulation things will last, but it's not like cars where you can find a carburetor from a 1947 Winglewhopper to keep yours going. The actual computer hardware has more of a limit, I fear.
Soon we'll have retro as in ICQ and LiveJournal.  People will pine for the "good old days" of modem sounds.
TTFN - Kent
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Database popularity rises and falls over decades, not years. The databases that developers are interested in trying today may permeate the enterprises of the future. I'm sure there are a few MUMPS installs still running
Web frameworks come and go with the wind, but something has to save the data for the next one.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: but something has to save the data for the next one.
Don't worry... many Governments have renewed their licences for Excel... 
M.D.V. 
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Probably less bad than Access.
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ouch.... that burns
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I see that text isn't in the list!
There is a particular piece of software (I won't name it) that was first introduced in 1987 that uses text files as its database storage and it's still going strong. Back in the 1987 version of the software there was a 2MB limit to each text file which I think was enforced by the version of Unix it initially ran on. That limit was eventually lifted, possibly in the Y2K timeframe. In my involvement with it/usage of it, it ran on various generations of machines: At least two generations of Sequent multiprocessor machines, then onto Sun Solaris (for Y2K compatibility), then to Linux.
It's still in use (although in the implementation I know of I understand it now two-way syncs with a SQL Server database for web access purposes).
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dying to know....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Amazon creates new claims process as it faces US complaint over third-party sales. I got a paper cut from a book once - can that count?
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With Preview 3 there are more new capabilities on the themes of personal and team productivity, modern development, and constant innovation. Ever closer: the black beast came forward
Yeah, neither funny nor insightful, but that wall of black in Dark Mode(tm) just frightens me these days.
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There is no darkness that powerful, that the simple light of a candle can't break it. 
M.D.V. 
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‘We see this as a tool to multiply programmers’ Codex: Write me a program that will put AI companies out of business
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That's going to be funny...
- OpenAI, Write a program to do XXX
2 hours later...
- OpenAI, sorry, the program has to do XXY
1 hour later...
- OpenAI, the program has to do XXZ
... rinse and repeat for a while...
OpenAI... OpenAI? OpenAI?
OpenAI has learned how to write ransomware and has infected itself to be left in peace... go and multiply by 0, you "§$%/"§% Human...
M.D.V.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Codex: Write me a program that will put AI companies out of business |
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Do you want skynet? Because this is how you get skynet.
PS I'm tired of having to fix quotes when the JS decides to barf a bunch of crap related to my selection into the quote instead of cleaning it out.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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“#Bitcoin will unite a deeply divided country. (and eventually: world)” "Most of the people … were unhappy … much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy."
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Love will unite a deeply divided country.(and eventually: world).......
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Yeah, that hasn't worked out too well yet either. 
TTFN - Kent
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Seemed to work for the Moonies back in the '80s. Maybe it was the rest of us who were wrong.  
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The enemy of my enemy...
does it count as union?
M.D.V.
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Spoken by the man who aided in dividing it. 
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Well, at least he's trying to fix it by turning it into an echo chamber!
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Because money has united the world many times before... 
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Microsoft has just released Windows App SDK 1.0.0-experimental, a toolkit that empowers desktop app developers to build apps with a modern Windows UI, APIs, and platform features. Now with Push! Now we can rewrite Pointcast!
Is this new? I honestly think I'm losing track of their SDKs/Community Toolkits/UI Thingiegoobers
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Nearly three-quarters of developers say they are responsible for managing the quality of the data they use in their applications The other 25% will be blamed if something goes wrong anyway
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