> From: "Terry Katz" <katz@advanced.org>
> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 21:17:33 -0500
> Subject: RE: time_t size: The year 2038 bug?
>
> > My main point was that 38 years is a LONG TIME in the computer industry.
> > Are you still using Wordperfect 5.1 on a 386 DOS machine at 40 MHz? It
> > requires much less energy than the Windows boxen running at 200+MHz and
> > it has the added feature that secretaries really liked it and the Windows
> > version of the same product sucked (from what I understand). That was 10
> > years ago...
>
> This is a very poor point .. where I personally can say 'No, I am not still
> using my 386 DOS machine...' There are still many people out there using
> these machines.
>
Yes, this is almost the configuration my wife still uses for her
work - Word6, Win3.1, 386SX notebook at 20MHz (circa 1992). She wrote
two books with this notebook and is writing third. And has no desire to
upgrade before it mechanically breaks down. Functionally it is
all what is needed ! The only problem is that batteries were not too good
back in 1992 :)
Generally, I think that in enviroment were computer is actually used
for some work (and not just computer development), the lifetime
of hardware is somewhat longer than it may seem. I'd say 10 years at
least. In my research institute (astrophysics), which is explicitely
oriented on keeping computing up-to-date (and even on the leading edge,
where possible), we just now finally phased out 10-12 year old Sun
SparcStations, used by students as X-terminals for last 4-5 years
Regards, Dmitri Pogosyan
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