21st Century UN*X - Bugs??
John Sloan,8292,X1243,ML44E
jsloan at ncar.ucar.edu
Sat Feb 17 08:46:57 AEST 1990
>From article <3222 at umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU>, by rhealey at umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Rob Healey):
> In article <2198 at syma.sussex.ac.uk> stevedc at syma.sussex.ac.uk (Stephen D Carter) writes:
:
[quoting from a newspaper article]
:
>> As currently programmed not a single system using Unix
>> will be able to come to grips with the 21st Century.
:
> Due to the lazyness and lack of foresite of certain programmers alot of
> PROGRAMS under ALL forms of computers and OS's will not make it
If this article is really discussing problems with handling 21st
century dates, then [A] I grossly misunderstood the intent (which now
seems obvious), and [B] the author of the original newspaper article
apparently doesn't have anything better to write about. C'mon, there
was an entire _book_ published a few years ago predicting doom and the
ultimate collapse of society as the clock ticked past 23:59:59 on
December 31, 1999. Sheesh... as Rob Healey pointed out, that's hardly
a problem... less of a problem for UNIX users than when the Congress
changed the date that daylight savings time changed by a week.
But since I rather stupidly bought the topic up, anyone want to take
a guess as to what _will_ be the 21st century UNIX equivalent?
Mach?
Plan 9?
5.9BSD?
POSIX?
System VI?
OSFix?
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