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DateThu, 6 Jan 2000 00:22:48 +0100 (CET)
FromLeos Bitto <>
SubjectRe: time_t size: The year 2038 bug?
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Dominik Kubla wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 03:32:53PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> ...
> > I think that before 38 years is up, none of us will be using 32-bit
> > machines so, even if I was 10 years old, I wouldn't bother 'fixing'
> > 32-bit machines. Even Intel's new stuff is 64 bits.
> 
> Incidentally this is the exact argument that reportedly was used against
> those who warned about the Y2K problen in late seventies/early eighties!

No, it is not. It was about the software, now it is about the
hardware. Hardware will not survive like the software did.


Leos


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