Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!rochester!ritcv!ritcsh!gregory
From: gregory@ritcsh.UUCP (Gregory Conway)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Timekeeping in ANSI C
Message-ID: <1058@ritcsh.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 88 06:06:16 GMT
References: <461@auvax.UUCP> <28700025@ccvaxa> <7159@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1152@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Organization: Computer Science House @ RIT, Rochester, NY
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In article <1152@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>, rk9005@cca.ucsf.edu (Roland McGrath) writes:
> ["Timekeeping in ANSI C"] - dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi):
> } Sooner than you can say "UNIX is a Trademark of ...", 47000 AD will be
> } here.  The greatest mistake a designer can make is to assume that a
> } certain date and time will never come.  Such short-sightedness has


You gotta be kidding us!  The year 47000 A.D.????  Assuming the human race
is still here, by that time we'll be talking interactively with computers
with "operating systems" that will make Un*x look like a small monitor.
Should we assume that was a typo?   :-)



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