Vernor Vinge&#x27;s novel A Deepness in the Sky has &quot;programmer archaeologists&quot; working on their starship fleets that have thousands of years worth of software going back to &quot;the 0-second of one of Humankind&#x27;s first operating systems&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;A_Deepness_in_the_Sky#Interstellar_culture" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;A_Deepness_in_the_Sky#Interste...</a>