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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8086 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8086 In the late 1970s, the cutting-edge microprocessor was 16-bit. The first 32-b
by ISL 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8086 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8086
In the late 1970s, the cutting-edge microprocessor was 16-bit. The first 32-bit Intel chip was the 386, which debuted in 1985.
The TRS-80, a common small computer in the late 70s, offered 4kb-48kb of RAM.
When using hardware with that capacity, overflowing time_t in 2038 is hardly a concern.
- LoSboccacc 10y agoIBM ran 128 bit virtualized architecture on top of 1988 chips.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoOn mainframes, right? But Unix wasn't written to be a mainframe OS.
- LoSboccacc 10y agotrue, I was just noting that the universal claim of the parent about dates and clocks wasn't so universal
- sedachv 10y agoWhich was a backward-compatible extension of a 48-bit address space system built out of 1970s chips: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/system38/IBM_System_38_Technical_Developments_Dec1978.pdf http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/system38/IBM_Syst...