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RE: [PLUG] History is 1/2 over on Saturday
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Title: RE: [PLUG] History is 1/2 over on Saturday
coffee...coffee...coffeee
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Walt Mankowski [mailto:waltman@pobox.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 9:26 AM
>To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
>Subject: Re: [PLUG] History is 1/2 over on Saturday
>
>
>On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:17:56AM -0500, William H. Magill wrote:
>> Think about it... The original Unix clock implementation was
>in 16 bits.
>> ... and this weekend it dies! '
>
>Umm...I don't get it. You can't even hold the number of seconds in a
>single *day* in 16 bits. How'd they manage to stretch it out to work
>for 34 years?
>
>Walt
>
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