From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy Programmers' Day!
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 22:13:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201509160213.t8G2DN4F018687@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)
> Today is The Day of the Programmer, being the 0x100'th day of the year.
Still further off topic, but it reminds me of a Y2K incident circa 1960.
Our IBM 7090 had been fitted with a homegrown time-of-day clock (no, big
blue did not build such into their machines back then). The most significant
bits of the clock registered the day of the year. On day 0x100 the clock
went negative and the system went wild.
Doug
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2015-09-16 2:13 Doug McIlroy [this message]
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2015-09-12 21:49 Norman Wilson
2015-09-15 14:10 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-09-15 15:27 ` scj
2015-09-16 3:10 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-09-16 12:54 ` John Cowan
2015-09-12 21:26 Dave Horsfall
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