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Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem!

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In article <4E5CED7B.5040209@SPAM.comp-arch.net>,
Andy \"Krazy\" Glew <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> wrote:
>On 8/30/2011 6:32 AM, jmfbahciv wrote:
>> Andy "Krazy" Glew wrote:
>>> On 8/29/2011 9:56 AM, nmm1@cam.ac.uk wrote:
>>>> In article<4E5BB93F.2030406@SPAM.comp-arch.net>,
>>>> Andy \"Krazy\" Glew<andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net>   wrote:

>> Please consider putting your collections on bitsavers, or somewhere,
>> so that the knowledge doesn't get lost.
>>
>> /BAH
>
>I am putting my collection on comp-arch.net --- my own personal 
>wikipedia.  I had not considered it as Bitsavers, but fair enough.
>
>Why "my own personal" - well, I started putting it on wikipedia, but got 
>tired of stuff being deleted by the wikipedia trolls.
>
>Why not "bitsavers"?  Well, my impression is that bitsavers is about 
>saving manuals, etc.

We should secure sites like bitsavers, multicians, trailing-edge and
the various private sites for posterity.

I suggest we publish them in a quantity that forces the national
libraries of good archiving states to store them.

The US, Canada, UK, Norway, Sweden and Germany all have very good
archives. (I am sure there are more). 

Norway has a limit of 50 published copies where you can voluntarily
give up copies for the arhives, the mandatory limit is at 500. 

The archival package is 6 copies, and it qualifies as a tax payment, 
deductible on a pro-rata sales volume. 

Three of the copies goes into deep-time storage, chilled, packed in
argon etc. They are getting pretty good at preserving stuff. 

-- mrr

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Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2011-08-30 13:32 +0000
  Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-08-30 07:02 -0700
    Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! Morten Reistad <first@last.name> - 2011-08-30 17:09 +0200
    Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2011-08-31 13:21 +0000
      Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-08-31 07:55 -0700
        Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2011-09-01 13:39 +0000
          Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 01:24 +1000
          Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-09-01 08:28 -0700
            Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2011-09-02 13:44 +0000
      Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2011-09-01 04:30 +1000
        Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2011-09-01 13:39 +0000
          Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 01:26 +1000

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