leonard@agora.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) (02/22/88)
In article <3098@cup.portal.com> Isaac_K_Rabinovitch@cup.portal.com writes: <dlow@hpccc.HP.COM (Danny Low) writes: <Obviously they're not using MS-DOS. They're 4 centuries in the future, <and the MS-DOS clock will overflow in less than a century. So all of <humanity from the mid-21st on is safe from MS-DOS! Rather a relief, no? Sorry Isaaac, but you have fallen into the same trap that many others have. They note that MS-DOS has only 7 bits to represent the year, and they assume that that means it will break on Jan 1, 2028. MS-DOS starts counting on Jan 1, 1980. This implies it would break on Jan 1, 2108. Due to *other* limitations, it breaks on Jan 1, 2100. This is more than a century in the future. -- Leonard Erickson ...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard CIS: [70465,203] ...!tektronix!reed!percival!agora!leonard "I used to be a hacker. Now I'm a 'microcomputer specialist'. You know... I'd rather be a hacker."