[Info-vax] Y3K for PDP-11 Operating Systems

[onedbguru]

On May 3, 2:39 pm, Henry Crun <m... at rechtman.com> wrote:
> On 03/05/11 20:51, Bob Koehler wrote:
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> >   >Bob Koehler wrote:
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> >>> In article<bdd4fd3d-bb52-43fb-ad9c-746b901f4... at gu8g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>, jjh<jjhu... at gmail.com>  writes:
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> >>> To make sure I understand, y3K =3D 3000, it is 2011 now...um that is 989
> >>> years from now...or roughly  12.5 lifetimes....I seriously don't think
> >>> that anyone in the year 3000 will want to know anything about DEC hw
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> >> You obviously have not read the historical documents.
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> > I am curious, I have not read the historical documents.
> > Can you please post a link?
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> > As for Y3K for RT-11, since the date is presently managed
> > up to 2099 as of V05.07 of RT-11, dates starting in 2100
> > become the next problem.  And since adding support only
> > for an additional 128 years seems like a complete waste of
> > time, then 3000 CE was chosen as the next minimum step.
> > In practice, at least an additional 4000 years would probably
> > be added, more than enough to handle dates until the rules
> > for the CE (Commercial Events, Common Era, Christian Era
> > or Gregorian - all are identical and have a 400 year cycle)
> > Calendar requires a rule change to handle years which are
> > less than the current 365.2418 days.
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> > So Y3K is really just Y2.1K if that makes a difference.
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> > Jerome Fine
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> IIRC there was an article by someone from DEC who promised that RSTS would be
> patched to accept five-digit years before the year 9999. However I doubt that
> current versions would be supported until then...
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> Mike R.
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question... who cares??? I can almost guarantee that none of us will
be here in 2099... and by that time you might be using neural-net
technology that will make the PDP look like a TRS80.