On Fri, 13 May 2005, Srinivas G. wrote: > Tuesday, January 19 2038. Time: 03:14:07 GMT. If Linux programmers get > nightmares, it's about this date and time. > This data is stored in 32 bits, or units of memory. On 32 bit systems. Will you be using a 32 bit system 33 years from now, or will most of the world be using 64 bit computers by then? Rumor has it that both Intel and AMD will stop producing 32 bit CPUs for the desktop and server market relatively soon... -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
