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From: dseal@armltd.co.uk (David Seal)
Subject: Re: Publishing Scholarly Work on the Web -- opinions?
Organization: Advanced RISC Machines Ltd
Date: 25 Sep 1996 17:24:56 GMT
Message-ID: <52bpt8$7s7@sis.armltd.co.uk>

ecale@cray.com (David Ecale) writes:

>... (PS.  The only media that I know about that has survived
>1000s of years is stone (the Rosetta Stone is an example) and clay (baked
>in the case of Babylonian Cuniform and unbaked in the case of Minoan
>Linear B). ...

And (in support of your point) note that recreating the "wetware"
required to read these storage media (i.e. human brains capable of
reading cuneiform, etc.) took a *lot* of effort. :-)

David Seal
dseal@armltd.co.uk

