Re: Appleworks

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

David Empson (dempson@actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
: Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:

: >    Except it neglects to mention that every 6 years ProDOS 8 needs to
: > be patched to deal with the year tables.

: IF you are using a ThunderClock, or equivalent, then yes.

: It does not require any patches if you have no clock at all, or a IIgs,
: or a third party clock with a proper year register (and a ProDOS driver
: that handles it).

: > It *IS* possible to hold more bits in the year field than the braindead
: > hardware selected in 1983 for the clock card, despite what some Apple
: > whitewashers will try and come up with their usual lame excuses over.

: The problem is not the year register.  The method provided by the
: ThunderClock to read the time (as a string in the input buffer) doesn't
: even provide the year.  ProDOS has to determine the year by working from
: the day of week, day of month and month.  This gives a maximum of six
: years range (five in the worst case - two leap years within a seven year
: period).

: Apple chose the ThunderClock because it was the most common clock card
: at the time.

Thanks for posting this. Now maybe Mr Nimrod will finally catch on. Aw, who
am I trying to kid? He'll never catch on.
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