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November 1999, Week 4

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Gavin Scott <[log in to unmask]>
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Gavin Scott <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 24 Nov 1999 13:17:36 -0800
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Larry writes:
> You do not have to watch a server.  In the early days of the 3000 MPE/V
> system there was a counter where you had to reboot the system
> every n days.
> I think this was less than a month but am not sure.

I believe it was 2^31ms, or slightly more than 24 days, i.e. exactly half of
the Microsoft limit.  So at least Windows knows how to do unsigned math
which the 3000 apparently didn't :-)

G.

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