Re: the year 2000 -- is the tp750 bios ready for it?

["Derek V. Chan" <chan4@husc.harvard.edu>]

I don't see what the problem is...

I just set the date in DOS/Win (haven't tried in os/2 or linux yet) as
"MM-DD-20YY" or the whatnot...

*shrug*



>Return-Path: owner-tp750@cs.utk.edu
>Date:         Sun, 14 Jan 96 19:54:56 EST
>From: Jack Schudel <SCHUDEL@ufl.edu>
>Subject:      Re: the year 2000 -- is the tp750 bios ready for it?
>To: billy@mix.com, TP750@cs.utk.edu, YOUDELMAN@Eisner.DECUS.Org
>
>On Sun, 14 Jan 1996 13:12:12 -0500 (EST) you said:
>>> the year 2000 is irrelevant to TP's per se, you have o ask the question
>>> of whateve operating system, and more particularly, whatever applications
>>> software you are using.
>>
>>The only OS I know about that has this problem is DEC's RT-11 (runs on
>>PDP-11 computers, I still use it here) but this is very easy to check -
>>just set the date past 2000 and give it a whirl...
>
>There is a bios update (SYTPE140.*) that includes the following line:
>  1.40  Year of date doesn't become 2000 after 1999.
>
>This is for the 755CD/CSE/CV/CDV/CX, but it may be a problem with others.
>
>http://www.pcco.ibm.com/files.html should get you started.
>
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