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Also sprach Dominik Kubla: } 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! } There's certainly a correlation (sp?) between the two and it would be ironic if it happened again. However, here's why I think it won't: Noone uses old machines for very long. How many of you are still using a PDP-10 (30+ years ago) or an Apple classic (20- years ago) for "real" work? I'll put my foot squarly in my mouth and predict that, in 38 years, people will think that running anything on a machine less than 1GHz speed for a production machine is nothing short of insanity. But, then, there are always the hobbyists...but, then, they can "fix" the kernel themselves? :) Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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