Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-winken!uunet!kddlab!titcca!sragwa!wsgw!socslgw!diamond From: diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Day of week routine Message-ID: <10327@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> Date: 5 Jun 89 04:09:42 GMT Sender: news@csl.sony.JUNET Reply-To: diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond) Organization: Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Inc. Lines: 48 Does anyone else get "interp buffer overflow" trying to follow-up to a message like this: 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.was Does anyone else get ".newsrc restored" and find that their .newsrc is not restored? Well, it's slightly better than having to skip past the 30 preceding comp.lang.c articles again. Anyway... 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. Badri Lokanathan: >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? Are you serious, Mr. Lokanathan? Did anyone believe that a mainframe operating system would still be in use 25 years later? And if that's not enough, consider this: No one, but no one, wants to be seen using a 10-year-old piece of hardware. Sure, they'll use them in secondary roles, but no one wants to be seen using them. But a 20-year-old operating system is another story. Everyone wants to run a 20-year-old operating system with their 3-year-old workstation, bitmapped screen, network, and megabytes of RAM. No one wants to use an operating system newer than that, even though a few of the newer ones are better. This kind of attitude isn't going to change in the next 50 years either. Oh there are exceptions of course, for instance I prefer a certain 10-year-old operating system and a certain 5-year-old one, and would be interested in watching a few others that are now under development. But such preferences are risky to careers, and should be kept quiet. -- Norman Diamond, Sony Computer Science Lab (diamond%csl.sony.co.jp@relay.cs.net) The above opinions are my own. | Why are programmers criticized for If they're also your opinions, | re-implementing the wheel, when car you're infringing my copyright. | manufacturers are praised for it?