GW> I believe the base OS is OK in all versions > OS/2 2.0.

Greater than v2.0? If you know that v2.0 os "no-good" then that will 
answer my question. Can you tell me what the problem was with v2.0?


GW> IM> Is this true of _all_ versions of OS/2, that they all use the
GW> IM> RTC for for their TOD clock? (Is the 2079 a C thing?)
GW>
GW> Afaiaa it is true of all versions since OS/2 2.0. The 2079 is an
GW> OS/2 thing. Years >= 80 are considered to be 19xx, years < 80 are
GW> considered to be 20xx.

What?! I don't understand this. DOS is good until 2099, being limited, 
really, only by the directory structure, but surely to gawd OS/2 is good 
until at _least_ then! No, this doesn't sound right. I've got to check 
this out. Hold on...

...

Aw man! This really bites! I set my RTC to 2080 and OS/2 thought that it 
was 1980! What an abortion! So what am I supposed to do in 2080 -- go 
back to DOS? Yahoo. Don't throw out those copies of Himem.Sys and 
Mscdex, folks -- what's old will be new again!

I'm not even going to say any more about it because this _really_ ticks 
me off.


GW> The C thing hits in 2038, when for most
GW> compilers the time counter goes negative (Watcom C uses an unsigned
GW> counter which is good to 2106).

Heh... okay, thanks a lot. Take care and TTYL!

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