(How many bits) Re: Day of week routine

[Peter da Silva]

Follow up to comp.misc.

The subject is how many bits we'll be using in 50 years. Many people are
holding out for 32, for some reason.

In article <10327 at socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET>, diamond at csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond) writes:
> But a 20-year-old operating system is another story.  Everyone wants
> to run a 20-year-old operating system with their 3-year-old workstation,

Ah, but that 20 year old operating system was running on 16 bit machines
at the time. It's now running almost exclusively on 32-bit ones. To say that
it'll be running on 32-bit machines in 20 years, let alone 50, is a symptom
of a failure of the imagination.

And it's not the same system it was 20 years ago.

I suspect that in 20 years, and likely 10, maybe even 5, it'll be most often
seen running under Mach (or the moral equivalent).
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