[X-Unix] So what is a dmg file?

[William H. Magill]

On 22 Jan, 2004, at 11:04, Albert Lunde wrote:
> So I'm kind of concerned about creating archives I'll be unable
> to read on some future platform.

As I mentioned in my earlier post -- being able to read the physical 
media is much more of a concern than being able to decode the contents.

Decode stuff is what computers do best. Somebody can always write a 
program that will remember what the format of the 8 1/2 inch floppy 
used on the PDP 8 was... but finding a drive to read that floppy will 
be a challenge.

When you move to some future platform you probably won't be able to 
read the 3.5 inch floppies you used to archive your PowerPC 604 system 
with. ... oh, yeah, we already did that, didn't we.


T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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