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silvestrov
on July 28, 2025
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Debian switches to 64-bit time for everything
A lot of the old systems don't use bytes/ints the same way as the C programming language.
Many systems stored numbers only in BCD or text formats.
exidy
on July 29, 2025
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_computer
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Many systems stored numbers only in BCD or text formats.