Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 May 1999 01:52:20 +0200 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: Clock |
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On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 09:05:46AM -0700, Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> But by then all existing 32-bit machines will be completely obsolete and > we'll all have upgraded to 64-bit hardware, or at least 64-bit OS's. It > would be absurd to think that anything running today will survive that > long.
There are still people using PDP-8 and others still making money with PDP-8 software. Admited, these days they mostly make their money by migrating the software away to other machines, but whatever - you should really calculate for a _much_ longer software lifetime than normal people'd ever expect.
Ralf
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