Sombody just gave me a reference to this page! OK!
A little more insight, if you can. When the the Y2K problem shuts down all these 'little buggers', don't the programs have an imbedded 'restart' program? (Used in the event of a 'power' interruption, or a 'watchdog timeout') If these are in place, wouldn't the restart wind up by getting the 'present' (new) as being 0000/-/00101, moved to 'past', retrieving the next 'new' as being 0000/-/0111, with the resulting being 2 'clicks'? (also, counter good for another century)
I don't know how much program storage was allowed for this type of recovery. I know from personal experience that storage is sometimes at a great premium, and would never comment on anothers efforts to accomplish the 'most' with the 'least'. In the beginning, certainly, trade offs were made that in hindsight and with the current state of technology would not have been made.
I will now read some more of my 'new find' (your page)
I bookmarked it!
Ken |
