begin quoting Brinkley Harrell as of Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 07:38:55PM -0600: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > >begin quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:29:28AM > >-0800: > >[snip] > > > >>In my experience, the only real-world benefit for the general use case > >>of most desktop systems is that running 64-bit lets you use more than > >>3GB of RAM. > >> > > > >The UNIX 2038 bug. > > That's not a bug -- it's a design feature of the original Unix system > architecture where the binary time count is in a 32-bit integer and > referenced to an epochal point causing it to roll over in 2038. If you > did not change the base type to 64-bit, even recompiling all of the > library and applications on a 64-bit machine will not correct the problem.
Dude, turn off the MSWindows machine and get out into the fresh air. -- Let's not refer to the Y2K problem as a "design feature". Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
