At 19:31 05/09/98 -0400, you wrote:
> The clock chip in MSX machines -- the Ricoh RP5C01 -- stores the
> date year as only two digits, 00..99.
>
> Has the "Year 2000 (Y2K) bug" been discussed by MSX users?
>
> The year 2000 is less than 16 months away!
Well, I've tried to exchange the date to 31st December, 1999, and
the time to 23:58:59. All that I've done was to wait 2 minutes, and a GET
DATE A$: ?A$. The result was 01/01/2000. So, MSX is Y2K compliant.
_____ _ _ M. Sc. In Computational Mathematics - UFF
| __ \ (_| | | Niteroi - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
| |__) | _ ____ __ _ _ __ __| | ___ +-----------------+
| _ / | |/ __// _` | '__/ _` |/ _ \ | Sola Scriptura |
| | \ \ | | (__| (_| | | | (_| | (_) | | Sola Gratia |
|_| \_\|_|\___\\__,_|_| \__,_|\___/ Jurczyk Pinheiro | Sola Fide |
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/9822/ | Solo Christi |
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Soli Deo Gloria |
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-----------------+
MSX freak, X-Phile, Trekker, Christian, Anime and Yamato fan, Transformers,
CuD junkie, Gospel Rock, Comics, Anti-Microsoft guy!
****
MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put
in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the
quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
****
