[TriLUG] 1234567890

Scott Lambdin lopaki at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 13:41:59 EST 2009


What about the criminals trapped in Manhattan using the salvaged computers
and gluing chandeliers to their Cadillacs?

On 2/10/09, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday 09 February 2009 04:11:22 pm Ivan Panarusky wrote:
> > Don't forget the year 2038 problem.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_Problem
>
> I'd imagine that by 2030, let alone 2038, the equivalent of today's Intel
> 64x2
> will cost a dime, in quantities, for embedded programmers to use.
>
> As far as desktops/servers/thinclients, if even one percent of the
> population
> is using 32 bit computers, OS's or software by 2030, our society has much
> bigger problems than the 2038 year problem.
>
> Here's the approximate CPU bits history as I remember it for commodity
> personal computers:
>
> 1975: 8 bits
> 1984: 16 bits
> 1995: 32 bits
> 2004: 64 bits
>
> I'm reasonably confident that by 2030 we'll have at least 128 bit CPUs, if
> not
> 256's. I'm reasonbly confident that 32 bit generic CPUs manufactured for
> use
> in general purpose computers will have vanished from the planet.
>
> SteveT
>
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