Replying to a message of Dan Ceppa to Dave Drum:

 DC> -> On 15 Jul 09  04:01:00, Dave Drum got back to Dan Ceppa 
 DC> -> Re: Y2K Bug in OLR

 DC>> It's not the Amiga, but the programming that caused the problem.

 DD>> Nope. It was the hardware, big boy. The Intel CPU (and its clones)
 DD>> used a register structure that ran out of dates beginning with Y2K.
 DD>> The

 DC> I think the year was 2038, or something like that.  BW's problem was 
 DC> it held only 2 bits for the date.

Two bits??  With two bits you can count all the way up to three (beginning
at zero).  With one byte (8 bits) you can count up to 255 and with two bytes
(16 bits) you can count up to 65535 (both cases starting with zero).

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