A Universal Tool to Rescue Old Files From Obsolescence

Jen Young pointed out This Nifty NYTimes Story on a prototype for a \”universal virtual computer\” — a system with architecture and language designed to be so logical and accessible that computer developers of the future will be able to write instructions to emulate it on their machines.

\”I don\’t need to recreate Acrobat Reader with all its buttons and colors,\” he said. \”That would be overkill.\” Users of the future, he said, will want to see the document and have access to the data. \”They will take the data and store it, probably in a completely different way.\”