[TriLUG] 1234567890

Dave Moody davethebald at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 10 12:29:49 EST 2009


Or 2036 with Apophis

--- On Tue, 2/10/09, Neil L. Little <nllittle at embarqmail.com> wrote:

From: Neil L. Little <nllittle at embarqmail.com>
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] 1234567890
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion" <trilug at trilug.org>
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 10:38 AM

Nah, It all ends in 2012.

73,
Neil, WA4AZL
JARS Forever!!
www.jars.net

Steve Litt wrote:
> On Monday 09 February 2009 04:11:22 pm Ivan Panarusky wrote:
>   
>> Don't forget the year 2038 problem.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_Problem
>>     
>
> I'd imagine that by 2030, let alone 2038, the equivalent of today's Intel 64x2 
> will cost a dime, in quantities, for embedded programmers to use.
>
> As far as desktops/servers/thinclients, if even one percent of the population 
> is using 32 bit computers, OS's or software by 2030, our society has much 
> bigger problems than the 2038 year problem.
>
> Here's the approximate CPU bits history as I remember it for commodity 
> personal computers:
>
> 1975: 8 bits
> 1984: 16 bits
> 1995: 32 bits
> 2004: 64 bits
>
> I'm reasonably confident that by 2030 we'll have at least 128 bit CPUs, if not 
> 256's. I'm reasonbly confident that 32 bit generic CPUs manufactured for use 
> in general purpose computers will have vanished from the planet.
>
> SteveT
>  
> Steve Litt
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> http://www.recession-relief.US
>
>   

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