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> 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. The argument used in the late seventies / early eighties was that nobody would be using the same application code. Most of us are writing application code now that makes no such date-related assumptions. A recompile will fix them. We aren't saying that our code will not be in use after 2038. It may well be. But it will work by then. DS - 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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