From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 26 19:27:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E518A37B401 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:27:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-209.245.143.103.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.143.103] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15xJBf-000698-00; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:27:03 -0700 Message-ID: <3BDA1BAC.6DD81122@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:27:56 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Julian Elischer , Peter Wemm , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. References: <2912.1004113233@critter.freebsd.dk> <3BD993A6.E6B12512@mindspring.com> <20011026214703.K96876@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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