Whenever I write about old software, it still strikes me how absurd it is that it’s easier to run software from the 90s and 2000s on a modern computer than it is to run an iOS app from 15 years ago.
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Proprietary systems age really poorly.
And ones from today will be totally borked in 8-15 years from now, cause it's all relying on cloud services now
Proprietary systems age really poorly.
And ones from today will be totally borked in 8-15 years from now, cause it's all relying on cloud services now
@mansalia You say that, but the software from 15 years ago that still works fine today is all for Windows. It’s less proprietary vs not than it is about the incentives to keep backwards compatibility. And MS is locked into eternal backwards compatibility whether they like it or not.
@misty reminded me of this post from a few days ago! And I jokingly wanted to suggest to some of my co-workers the idea to port our archival description software to a GBA/NDS… like LSDJ exists, it should be technically possible to do archival description work on a gameboy 😆
https://timetheft.rip/@jazz/117292468996706242