Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!geaclib!daveb
From: daveb@geaclib.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64 bits
Message-ID: <3586@geaclib.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 89 01:25:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: geaclib.3586
References: <28200261@mcdurb>
Organization: GEAC Computers, Toronto, CANADA
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From article <28200261@mcdurb>, by aglew@mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM:
>>"3 bits per year"?  Where do you get that idea?
> Woops, you're right. The rule of thumb is 1 bit every 3 years.
> Anybody know an attribution for it, anyway?

A partial one: it was attributed to a IBM type, commenting on the
expected lifetime of MVS/XA (31 bits instead of 24, you understand).

--dave
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