11 Aug
2004
11 Aug
'04
5:45 a.m.
Doc Shipley wrote:
Jules Richardson wrote:
Oh, crap, what a fubar! Unforgiveable, too, since my PDP-11 is
running 2.11BSD downstairs....
s/every currently-maintained/almost every currently-maintained/
Doc
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 15:57, Patrick Finnegan
wrote:
*32-bit* Unix goes pop in 2038. Since every currently-maintained Unix
(or Unix-alike for you OpenGroup fanatics) runs on 64-bit hardware and
in 64-bit mode, I don't see it as a problem. On Wednesday 11 August 2004 09:50, Jules
Richardson wrote:
Unix goes pop in what, 2038 though? :-) "could be kept" in zip files, yes - but
then that's no use in 50
years time if someone stumbles across a compressed file and has no
idea how to decompress it in order to read it and see what it is :-)
UNIX's compress format has been around for decades now... has its
patents expired yet? If not, there's always gzip...