Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:27:56 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. Message-ID: <3BDA1BAC.6DD81122@mindspring.com> References: <2912.1004113233@critter.freebsd.dk> <3BD993A6.E6B12512@mindspring.com> <20011026214703.K96876@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
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Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > -On [20011026 18:49], Terry Lambert (tlambert2@mindspring.com) wrote: > >According to you, that won't bite anyone for 10 years. > > I have heard arguments like this before. > > ``The solution is temporary.'' > ``But we will replace this with the correct stuff in a few > days/weeks/months/years.'' > > 10 years passes quickly has been my experience and I rather have a good > solution than one which fills the gap for 10 years now and that we get > this entire revisitation 10 years from now. > > But that's my personal belief and observations. You need to read the entire discussion. He was attacking a solution that was "only good for 10 years", in favor of one that was "only good for 37 years". I was being ironic. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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