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You will never see, "DOS booted from 2000-year-old floppy". That is some amazing staying power and a great outcome. I wonder what else we can bring back.

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there is a tradeoff here though: that floppy can be erased and rewritten easily. dna not so much.

DNA rewrites itself all the time... we just cant change it at will, much, yet.

Well, we might in 2000 years.

Chances are that I won't be here to see it.

maybe you'll be on the floppy

When we set the upper limit of PC-DOS at 640K, we thought nobody would ever need that much memory. — William Gates

I would read that book.

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