Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!desnoyer
From: desnoyer@Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Day of week routine
Summary: 32 bits in 2038 (really pdp8s in 1989)
Message-ID: <32220@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 3 Jun 89 00:02:02 GMT
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In article <4384@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> [32 bits will be around in 50 years. No it won't. Yes it will ...]
>
>2038 is nearly 50 years away. PDP-8s were a going concern 20 years ago
>and still any remaining ones are hanging on by the ragged edge.

I have heard that a lot of bank ATMs are controlled by PDP-8s. Can
anyone with better knowledge than be confirm/deny this rumor? (Or are
they all on IBM mainframes connected to private SNA networks? :-)

				Peter Desnoyers