Time to admit Obamanomics has failed
 

On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:31:21 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:





The minicomputer was a 'Prime' It did everything strange. It kept
track of time in seconds from a fixed date. A small file was provided
by prime to patch their proprietary OS.


As does just about every operating system known to man. Interesting date for
32bit unixen is something like 19th of January 2038 IIRC


Mark Rand
RTFM

Time to admit Obamanomics has failed
 

Mark Rand wrote:

On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:31:21 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:





The minicomputer was a 'Prime' It did everything strange. It kept
track of time in seconds from a fixed date. A small file was provided
by prime to patch their proprietary OS.

As does just about every operating system known to man. Interesting date for
32bit unixen is something like 19th of January 2038 IIRC


Prime did a lot of strange things. Their first OS would mark a file
deleted, but not free up that space on the hard drive.