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> Beware, in particular, of the subtle and terrible ``All the world's a 32-bit machine'', which is almost true today but shall cease to be so before thy resume
by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
> Beware, in particular, of the subtle and terrible ``All the world's a 32-bit machine'', which is almost true today but shall cease to be so before thy resume grows too much longer.
That’s cute. What year was it written?
- mellosouls 6y ago1987 by the look of it. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.c/CYgWkWdWCcQ/thMt3RfByAgJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.c/CYgWkWdWCc...
- qubex 6y agoYeah... the reference to the abundance of VAXen isn’t something one encounters often this side of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
- pwdisswordfish2 6y agoWhich side is that?
- Y_Y 6y agoThe outside
- pwdisswordfish2 6y agoWhat about HN readers/commenters on the inside?