[Coco] Y2k bug

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 06 March 2006 19:35, John Donaldson wrote:

>Gene,

>   Point Chester to the NITROS9 site and have him download the 6809

>version. It

>contains clock drivers that have the Y2K bug fix and will run 200%

>faster than the

>stock OS9 LII.

>

Yeah, thats a good idea John.  Why didn't I think of it.  Oldtimers I 
guess.. :(

Chester, goto <http://www.nitros9.org/> and download nitros9 for your 
machine & cpu.  All that stuff has already been fixed.


>John Donaldson

>

>Gene Heskett wrote:

>>On Monday 06 March 2006 08:27, Chester A Patterson wrote:

>>>What is RTSI?

>>

>>IIRC, its <http://os9archive.rtsi.com> or something like that.

>>I have some clock modules there too, but all for special clocks, like

>>the disto 4n1.

>>

>>>-----Original Message-----

>>>From: Gene Heskett [mailto:gene.heskett at verizon.net]

>>>Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 1:53 PM

>>>To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts

>>>Subject: Re: [Coco] Y2k bug

>>>

>>>On Saturday 04 March 2006 14:27, Chester Patterson wrote:

>>>>12 or 13 years without firing up the old rig.

>>>>Just did.

>>>>OS9 Level 2 - How do I fix the date?

>>>>It's hard coded for 19xx.

>>>>I suppose the easiest is to change the "19" to "20"

>>>>Which module? What offset?

>>>

>>>Depending on what clock module hardware you might be using, there

>>> are some fixed clocks available on rtsi. I think theres a fixed one

>>> for the software clock too.  That will probably also contain the

>>> bootlist order bug fixes too IIRC.  That was in ed9 of the clocks

>>> from Eddie Kuhns, and the y2k fixes should have built on that.


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