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Date07 Jan 2000 01:29:00 +0200
From(Kai Henningsen)
SubjectRe: time_t size: The year 2038 bug?
wendling@ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu (Bill Wendling)  wrote on 05.01.00 in <20000105171300.E30086@ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu>:
> My main point was that 38 years is a LONG TIME in the computer industry.
> Are you still using Wordperfect 5.1 on a 386 DOS machine at 40 MHz? It

No. Mother is using WP 5.0 on a 286.

The 286 seems Y2K clean, by the way. WP50 is mostly so; I notice directory  
displays claim we're in the year ":0" currently, but who cares?

Of course, none of those will survive beyond 2107 (a.k.a. "death of DOS").

MfG Kai

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