Day of week routine

Peter Desnoyers desnoyer at Apple.COM
Sat Jun 3 10:02:02 AEST 1989


In article <4384 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> [32 bits will be around in 50 years. No it won't. Yes it will ...]
>
>2038 is nearly 50 years away. PDP-8s were a going concern 20 years ago
>and still any remaining ones are hanging on by the ragged edge.

I have heard that a lot of bank ATMs are controlled by PDP-8s. Can
anyone with better knowledge than be confirm/deny this rumor? (Or are
they all on IBM mainframes connected to private SNA networks? :-)

				Peter Desnoyers



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