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posted by kerravon E-mail, Sydney, Free World South, 10.11.2022, 17:18

> > > > > 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.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Personally, I'll take Einstein's word for it.
> >
> > Appeal to authority doesn't wash with me, and
> > Einstein didn't get everything right anyway.
>
> I have one last question for you on this totally ridiculous and totally
> absurd subject.
>
> Since you seem to feel that you are a better "authority" than was
> Einstein...

I didn't make such a claim.

> What is your assessment as to the capabilities of computers and OSs
> available to us after a blackhole has swallowed-up our sun ?

I don't have an opinion on that.

> Will we have 16bit machines booted to DOS ?

I have no idea about that, but while ever the
possibility exists that someone may wish to
manufacture 16-bit computers that boot to DOS,
I would like to have standards for such
computers organized now.

BFN. Paul.

 

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