Re:2038: Only 21 years away
by drzaiusapelord on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @11:48AM
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If anything I imagine guys like Ritchie never thought we'd be using a Unix-based system so far in the future. Back then OS's were a dime a dozen and the future far too cloudy to predict in regards to computing.
>but I think a 68-year horizon is more than most systems being built today have.
That's a lot of time, especially if we see Linux breaking into the mainstream about 1995 or so. That's 43 years to worry about this. Meanwhile, we saw Microsoft break into the mainstream at around 1985, which only gave us 15 years to worry about Y2K.
>but I think a 68-year horizon is more than most systems being built today have.
That's a lot of time, especially if we see Linux breaking into the mainstream about 1995 or so. That's 43 years to worry about this. Meanwhile, we saw Microsoft break into the mainstream at around 1985, which only gave us 15 years to worry about Y2K.