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KineticLensman
on Dec 30, 2021
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Long Now Years: Five-Digit Dates and Y10K-Complian...
Obligatory reference to 'A Fire Upon the Deep' [0] by Vernor Vinge, in which programmers-at-arms on board starships do indeed trace their ship clocks back to ancient computer systems and Unix in particular
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep
pacman128
on Dec 30, 2021
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It's actually the prequel, 'A Deepness in the Sky', that has this. Both very good books.
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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep