From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Geo."
 wrote:
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>No standard? What do you call it when at a minimum 99% of the PC's do it the
>same way?

I call it what Opus calls it.
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>Name one OS that ran on an 8088 or a 286 that didn't use local time for the
>clock. Xenix used local time, MSdos used local time, PCdos used local time.
>DRdos used local time, Windows (every version) used local time, Geos used
>local time, OS/2 used local time, BEos used local time. IBM shipped PC's set
>to their local time.

Why the historical restriction? My post was very definitely written in the
present tense. But even accepting your restriction, there was the
FlexOS-based 4680 OS (IBM Retail Store System POS).

>I think a more proper way to look at it than "OS conventions"
is to just say
>"there's one in every crowd"..

That's why they got the name PERSONAL computers.

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