Post AMAVvmIae6YUN1uhQO by rudolf@fosstodon.org
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(DIR) Post #AMAGSNYA5GFlu2iisy by urusan@fosstodon.org
2022-08-03T22:20:24Z
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Which present day computing systems (hardware or software) do you anticipate will still be productively working in 50 years?That is, not just a museum piece or a dusty relic someone occasionally pulls out of their attic.
(DIR) Post #AMAGedB3o7LxqTl0OO by allinone0@fosstodon.org
2022-08-03T22:22:42Z
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@urusan wifi chipsWell, if computers never touch 5g, then the wifi chip
(DIR) Post #AMAHpRd9B9xZAlcAs4 by rudolf@fosstodon.org
2022-08-03T22:35:49Z
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@urusan Tape drives.Mechanical IBM Keyboards.If I were alive in 50 years, my now 40 year old TRS-80 model 100 will still be in use.
(DIR) Post #AMAIITYn5E0HYVQ6z2 by clay@quanta.wiki
2022-08-03T22:40:34.665819Z
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@urusan @rudolf The Model 100 was my first computer. Once I implemented line drawing one pixel at a time on it, in Basic, I was hooked!
(DIR) Post #AMAIPFa3SQZUE3F3GS by clay@quanta.wiki
2022-08-03T22:41:52.907366Z
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@urusan IRS Mainframes.
(DIR) Post #AMAKL7s6NQyJ4CqPDM by glowl@chaos.social
2022-08-03T23:03:58Z
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@urusan maybe some arduinos if they are kept (operating) at the right conditions?
(DIR) Post #AMATro91dqf11oQ208 by SNovak@mastodon.online
2022-08-04T00:50:43Z
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@urusan the dinosaur mainframe in every major corporation ever.
(DIR) Post #AMATwC5Ca7DgQiionw by Wylsym@fosstodon.org
2022-08-04T00:51:32Z
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@urusan Cobol. 😁
(DIR) Post #AMAVvmIae6YUN1uhQO by rudolf@fosstodon.org
2022-08-03T23:24:16Z
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@clay @urusan Mine is still working fine. I use it now only as a geeky gadget for taking notes. It is fun when folks ask how old it is and I say 40 years.I used to also use it for looking at comminications over serial lines, and as a terminal in a phone booth :)
(DIR) Post #AMAVvmsOUzCAA4fIES by clay@quanta.wiki
2022-08-04T01:13:21.219804Z
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@urusan @rudolf I'm not surprised it still works! In the 80s it was before China started designing things to fail after a limited amount of time, to force people to buy again...or else there's no Chinese parts in it.
(DIR) Post #AMAYjeQSOM8SL8VCKG by fullstackthaumaturge@fosstodon.org
2022-08-04T01:45:16Z
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@urusan I suspect that if I live that long I'll still be using a POSIX shell as my file manager.
(DIR) Post #AMBHn11rJ1KfFTyW92 by robby@zoinks.one
2022-08-04T04:17:51.323031Z
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@urusan if software counts: code written in C89, Common Lisp, or standard Scheme will likely compile with some compiler that targets computers in 50 years. I'm less confident in including Java than I was a few years ago; the design philosophy has changed a lot recently.I think the ratio of RISC/CISC CPUs will be much higher. I suppose if nothing groundbreaking happens with ARMs licensing it could still be ARM dominating RISC. Otherwise I think RISC-V will be a big deal.
(DIR) Post #AMDAy9v71dBnFGF5to by Azure@tailswish.industries
2022-08-05T08:03:08.771416Z
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@urusan Linux will be the mitochondrion of software, wiggling its way into everything else as the basis of every container image.I expect some version of vi will exist for at least a century, based on the way Emacs user share is being eaten up by IDEs but vi is still going strong.
(DIR) Post #AMDB1dDIZOUAxvP9ay by Azure@tailswish.industries
2022-08-05T08:03:47.196363Z
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@urusan You /still/ have things like Neovim, people forking and doing a massive rewrite of a new vi to make it even better.