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Message: [QUOTE="August Derleth, post: 1712408"] Which, in the real world, is very possible. The IA-64 architecture and the Sparc-64 architecture both have explicit provisions to run 32-bit machine code compiled for earlier iterations of the family tree. I think all commercially viable 64-bit architectures will need very similar provisions. Plus, in a world where PDP-8s are still used in mission-critical applications by big organizations (BART), 32-bit systems will be around long after 2038. We knew, in a very real way, how to fix Y2K back in the 1980s. Hell, we knew in the 1970s, but we thought it would be too expensive to do things right. IOW, the panic will set in, and it will be averted in 2037 or thereabouts by the same method Y2K was averted in 1999. [/QUOTE]