Quotes of the week

[Posted May 13, 2015 by n8willis]

It occurs to me that the subtitle of PEP 493 could be "All software is terrible, but it's often a system administrator's job to make it run anyway" :)

— Nick Coghlan

Let’s bring the DOS prompt back! And let a thousand programs bloom!

— Jason Scott, announcing the debut of the Internet Archive's in-browser DOS simulator.

Quotes of the week

Posted May 21, 2015 10:36 UTC (Thu) by riking (subscriber, #95706) [Link]

The Internet Archive is doing some awesome work :)

By the way, if you have any DOS programs, do a search for it and send them over to <jscott@archive.org> if they're not already there. AOL cds too. There's a ISBN checker for books, too. Basically anything you think needs to be archived.