kpneal at pobox.com wrote:> At this point in history the odds of a general purpose computing platform > with ints > 32 bits having any success in the market is roughly the same > as the chance a metor will stike your house tonight.1 in 4,000,000,000,000 (approx) then...? :P -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/
Michelle Sullivan wrote:> kpneal at pobox.com wrote: > >> At this point in history the odds of a general purpose computing platform >> with ints > 32 bits having any success in the market is roughly the same >> as the chance a metor will stike your house tonight. >> > 1 in 4,000,000,000,000 (approx) then...? :P > >Sorry for the second email, I forgot to add: You'll never need more than 640k of RAM... ;-) (and yes I know that's not the actual quote) -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/