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[Shawn Hartsock]

It is interesting that the whole "sun aligning with the galactic core"
thing doesn't have a holiday. That won't happen again until ... uh...
what... like 65 million years from now? Time to party I'd say...

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Ivan Panarusky <panaruskyi at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://wikicomphelp.com/doom.html
>
> Countdown to the apoclypse.
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Scott Lambdin <lopaki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What about the criminals trapped in Manhattan using the salvaged computers
>> and gluing chandeliers to their Cadillacs?
>>
>> On 2/10/09, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> 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
>> > Recession Relief Package
>> > http://www.recession-relief.US
>> >
>> >
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