Day of week routine

[Henry Spencer]

In article <534 at bnr-fos.UUCP> dgibbs at bcars115.UUCP (David Gibbs) writes:
>>What will happen when the 32-bit Unix date goes negative in mid-January
>>2038 does not bear thinking about... :-)
>  Nothing of course, because nobody (but nobody) will be using piddly little
>32-bit machines in 2038.

Dream on... :-)  Have you looked at how many PDP-8s are still in service?
I won't even mention the staggering production runs of PDP-11s, which are
still in production in fact.  (I *think* the 8 is finally out of production,
but I could well be wrong.)  Nobody uses them in leading-edge applications
any more, but there are still lots of them around.  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.
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