Re: time_t size: The year 2038 bug?

[Bill Wendling]

Also sprach Rik van Riel:
} On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Bill Wendling wrote:
} 
} > So, I'm simply saying that, while looking into my crystal ball,
} 
} If computing history has taught us anything, it is that you cannot
} look into a crystal ball and tell what the future is going to be
} like.
} 
} Be prepared.
} 
I forgot the <sarcasm> XML tags for that above sentence...

} > There are people offering support for [234]86s?
} 
} The last 286s running SCO Xenix have been phased out
} before Y2K -- yes, those machines had been running for
} 8 or more years, processing business-critical data and
} vigorously shaking off the dust their contemporaries
} had been gathering for years...
} 
} 386s and 486s are still being used and supported,
} the 386s are mostly found in embedded systems and
} the 486s in slighly older but still fully functional
} servers...
} 
} (and yes, they are actively being supported)
} 
I stand corrected on this and the PDP-10 thing. If people are still using
these machines, wee fun!

	Bill