The wonder of it-the horror of it, Sura said-was that unlike the useless wrecks of Canberra’s past, these programs still worked! And via a million million circuitous threads of inheritance, many of the oldest programs still ran in the bowels of the Qeng Ho system. There were programs here that had been written five thousand years ago, before Humankind ever left Earth. But the castle midden was clean and fresh compared to what lay within the Reprise’s local net. Where the creek had worn that away, ten meters down, there were the crumpled hulks of machines-flying machines, the peasants said-from the great days of Canberra’s original colonial era. It was a little like the midden out back of his father’s castle. Programming went back to the beginning of time. “Pham Nuwen spent years learning to program/explore.
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