Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ur-valhalla!badri From: badri@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu (Badri Lokanathan) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Day of week routine Message-ID: <2265@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> Date: 2 Jun 89 05:45:21 GMT References: <234@zeek.UUCP> <322@xdos.UUCP> <1989May29.232954.25638@utzoo.uucp> <107107@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1989May30.155016.11099@utzoo.uucp> <534@bnr-fos.UUCP> <1989Jun1.160913.8849@utzoo.uucp> <1474@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu> Reply-To: badri@ee.rochester.edu (Badri Lokanathan) Organization: UR Dept. of Electrical Engg, Rochester NY 14627 Lines: 33 Henry Spencer: >> What will happen when the 32-bit Unix date goes negative in mid-January >> 2038 does not bear thinking about ... :-) >David Gibbs in article <534@bnr-fos.UUCP>: >> Nothing of course, because nobody (but nobody) will be using piddly little >> 32-bit machines in 2038. Henry Spencer: >> Dream on ... :-) The transition from 32 to 64 is going to be long >> and painful; I predict that there will still be plenty of 32-bit >> machines serving in secondary roles in 2038. Charlie Geyer in article <1474@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu>: >What's more, the 64 bit hardware will all be running 32 bit software. >Count on it. Are you guys serious? Do you actually think that 50 years from now people will be doing their computing on 32/64/128/256 bit machines? Or even Von-Neumann machines? With Unix as the operating system? Just think: 50 years ago they were still sending messages through naked runners (no - not quite, but almost that primitive!) PS. There is a rumor that PDP-11's have been microcoded to self destruct one minute before the year 2000. I also hope that I am alive 50 years from today to witness the computing of that time! -- "I care about my fellow man {) badri@ee.rochester.edu Being taken for a ride, //\\ {ames,cmcl2,columbia,cornell, I care that things start changing ///\\\ garp,harvard,ll-xn,rutgers}! But there's no one on my side."-UB40 _||_ rochester!ur-valhalla!badri