Re: three questions about //e

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Jeff Blakeney wrote:

>Cool. This also means, then that drivers can be written for clock
>cards for the IIe that do provide the year so that those lucky users
>can avoid the seven year patch problem.  That's good to know.

Yes, as perusing the built-in ProDOS clock driver will show, it
just uses the calendar congruence to synthesize a year.  ProDOS
itself doesn't care where the year data comes from.  A clock
driver can do practically anything as long as it sets up the time-
date values in the global page.


-michael

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