Sure, "nobody" (i.e. a negligible number of people) is running emulations of consumer software, esp. non-networked consumer software.
Networked backend server software, on the other hand, is run under emulation in production all the time. It's roughly 80% of the point of IBM's z/OS product line: to continue providing backward-compatibility with their mainframes all the way back through the early 70s, by shipping hardware that runs a hypervisor that can continue running those old workloads under (accelerated!) emulation, without changes. Anyone business running "a mainframe" these days isn't running on the original hardware (which has long since broken down without component replacement availability), but rather running modern hardware that's emulating their original mainframe.
I suspect that any p2p data-storage network that achieves importance and has data an archivist would care about living on it, would be given the same treatment (if people don't just consistently write new clients for it on new platforms.)
Sure, "nobody" (i.e. a negligible number of people) is running emulations of consumer software, esp. non-networked consumer software.
Networked backend server software, on the other hand, is run under emulation in production all the time. It's roughly 80% of the point of IBM's z/OS product line: to continue providing backward-compatibility with their mainframes all the way back through the early 70s, by shipping hardware that runs a hypervisor that can continue running those old workloads under (accelerated!) emulation, without changes. Anyone business running "a mainframe" these days isn't running on the original hardware (which has long since broken down without component replacement availability), but rather running modern hardware that's emulating their original mainframe.
I suspect that any p2p data-storage network that achieves importance and has data an archivist would care about living on it, would be given the same treatment (if people don't just consistently write new clients for it on new platforms.)