20 Nov
2007
20 Nov
'07
7:54 p.m.
> 1) "That number (2147483647) is soo big that
nobody would ever need more
> than that!"
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
That sorta reminds me of a fairly well-known quote
about 640K...
some statements will inevitably keep recurring. Lots of people apply
Moore's law to the past, but rarely look forward with it in planning
products.
2) Some of the
earlier compilers didn't have an "unsigned long int"
Broken tools are
still broken. 3) What
happens if you copy a -2G file to an otherwise almost full disk?
Beats me.