Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Day of week routine Message-ID: <4396@ficc.uu.net> Date: 4 Jun 89 18:56:28 GMT References: <234@zeek.UUCP> <322@xdos.UUCP> <1158@draken.nada.kth.se> Organization: Xenix Support Lines: 15 In article <1158@draken.nada.kth.se>, d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon We"tte) writes: > In article <4384@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: > >still see a fair number of 32-bit machines 20 years from now, but 64-bit > >machines with 64-bit software will be on the rise. In 50 years... I > >suspect that 64-bit machines will be on the way out. > So, if computers have stuck with 32 bits for n years, are there not > chances that computers will do so for another n years ? Sure, but we're talking about 2.5 * n years here. -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: uunet.uu.net!ficc!peter, peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Personal: ...!texbell!sugar!peter, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com.