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verdant
I suppose while designing the OS, they felt by 1995 they would have released many new versions past the Lisa. And they were correct.
danio
Yes I was thinking the world ended for Lisa in 1984 when Steve's skunk works project came to fruition.
oiuhjygtfghjnmk
A similar tongue-in-cheek statement by SUN in 1999. Since 32bit Unix time rolls over in 2038, they put out a Y2K notice warning about this and saying that they hoped everyone would have updated to the 64bit version by then.

I'm betting somewhere a vital 32bit system is going to fail in 28years time

hugh3
Sure, but by upgrading to 64 bit you're only putting off the problem for another 292 billion years.