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September 1997, Week 2

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Jerry Fochtman <[log in to unmask]>
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Jerry Fochtman <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 11 Sep 1997 06:35:14 -0500
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At 05:40 PM 9/10/97 -0700, Stan Sieler wrote:
>I'm wondering what's the longest time that a single task program
>has run on a 3000.  (STOREs that take 4 days because the operator
>left for the weekend don't count.)

I do recall several years ago a situation whereby when developing
a PM-program, a person called the 'DELAY' procedure with a
negative 32-bit value.  As you may know, the parameter for DELAY
is the number of milliseconds to 'pause' before returning.  Well,
the value turned-out to be something like 48 days....!

However, this probably doesn't qualify, as we elected to reboot
the system vs. waiting until the process woke-up.... :-)



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