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From: leonard@agora.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf-lovers,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A DOS of Star Trek
Message-ID: <746@agora.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 88 02:00:59 GMT
References: <880202-142028-1040@Xerox> <5080080@hpccc.HP.COM> <3098@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: leonard@.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
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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. 
 

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