DOS ain't dead - nuclear war

nuclear war (Miscellaneous)

posted by kerravon, Ligao, Free World North, 09.11.2022, 07:58

> > In a discussion elsewhere (hercules-380), I was told
> > that in a nuclear war, it is possible that all
> > industrial cities in the world will be nuked, so that
> > they don't have a competitive advantage.
> >
>
> FYI,
> after a nuclear war, computers of any CPU and OS will be 100% useless
> because the entirety of humanity will be thrust back into the stone-age.

I don't think that is correct.

There will still be surviving computers after a nuclear war, and it won't be the stone age, it will be an interesting environment.

We already know computers are possible, and a lot of concepts are already known. We just need to rebuild the manufacturing bases, without any large cities of any industrial value.

Or let me put it another way.

Yes, it is possible that nukes somehow take out all the people who know anything about computers, and we are literally back at the stone age. I don't want to say you are wrong.

But - IF - there are still surviving computer programmers, and maybe other people with technical know-how, e.g. university professors in (random city not nuked), THEN what can we do?

Or yet another way - what needs to survive a nuclear war in order to get the recovery process started? If all I need to do is print out a few pages on Wikipedia before the internet disappears, maybe I should do that while it still exists.

Or at you 100% sure that there is 0% chance of anything at all surviving except stone spears?

As a computer programmer, I've learnt to not even be sure that if (1 != 0) always returns true.

And ironically, that really happened to me, during PDOS development, because interrupts were happening and I wasn't preserving the flags properly in the interrupt, and expressions like that semi-randomly returned the incorrect results. :-)

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nuclear war - kerravon, 07.11.2022, 00:31
- nuclear war - Rugxulo, 07.11.2022, 09:55
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- nuclear war - marcov, 07.11.2022, 13:28
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