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From: Justin Bell <justin@******.NET>
Subject: Re: Real-Life Computing ...
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 16:49:32 -0500
At 05:38 PM 5/26/98 -0400, BigDaddy wrote:
# Airwasp wrote:
# >
# > For anyone wanting grins and giggles ... consider the following ...
# >
# > Intel is going to begin selling chips to the consumer market sometime
in the
# > year 2000 ...
# >
# > Their speed .... 800 MHz ...
# >
# That's if and a big IF they get the 2k bug squashed. Hell wont that be
# funny. "we'll sell ya a chip that might work in the year 2000." But i
# wonder what happened in SR to cope with the year 2k bug? any ideas?

you realise the 2029 bug was when the 32 bit time bug in UNIX hit
;)
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