Never tell a story on Friday night...
Barry's quote should have said "Gee - that means that the 16th bit will overflow on DSM-11 5536 days after that and $H will go back to zero and all the PDP-11's will start crashing!"
Good night - they told me to go back to my room ;-)
Terry Wiechmann wrote:
I'm helping NEMUG with the celebration by calling a number of 'old timers' with personal invitations. I called Barry Herring to invite him to the bash. (Barry was responsible for DSM-11 V2+ and was the Engineering Manager of the DSM products at DEC). I told him about $H turning to 60000 on April 9th. It was quiet for a few seconds and then he said "Gee - that means that the 16th bit will overflow on DSM-11, $H will go back to zero and all the PDP-11's will start crashing!"
... and they will be raiding the rest homes for all of us old PDP-11 guys...:-)
Have a good weekend...
Terry L. Wiechmann
K.S. Bhaskar wrote:
It's not called legacy technology, it's called heritage technology! 8-]
The origin for the date was chosen to be a point in time such that no living person circa 1970 could possibly have been born at a negative $H.
I wonder how many MUMPS applications will be around for people to be worried about bugs associated with $H crossing 100,000 (Oct 16, 2114).
-- Bhaskar
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 15:17 -0800, Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
The date on this web site caught my eye...
01/01/1841
Wow. I didn't know mumps was around that long ago... Perhaps it ran on Alister Babbage's Difference Engine
engine?
:-)
Kevin
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