Re: Weird IIgs Rom 01 bug

["Jayson Smith" <nospamratguyspambegone@nospamplease.bellsouth.ihatespam.net>]

Hi again,
On a somewhat related topic, what does the IIgs clock reset to when the
battery dies?

"Don Bruder" <dakidd@sonic.net> wrote in message
news:C1zdd.204$_3.2706@typhoon.sonic.net...
> In article <7Fudd.185329$as2.2670@bignews3.bellsouth.net>,
>  "Jayson Smith"
>  <nospamratguyspambegone@nospamplease.bellsouth.ihatespam.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi again,
> > That's pretty much what I finally figured out.  But just one question.
> > 1904?  Why 1904?  If they'd gone with the Unix epoch of 1970, we'd at
least
> > be good until somewhere around 2106 or so.
>
> Well, for the "why 1904 instead of 1900" part, that was one of those
> "fewer bytes of code" things - setting up the epoch such that 1900
> doesn't exist means not needing to do a couple of steps in the "is it
> leapyear?" calculation. At least, that's the reasoning I remember
> reading long long ago and far, far away...
>
> As far as why they didn't use the Unix epoch... <shrug> Ask Steve and
> the rest of the crew at Apple Inc.
>
> I've got a feeling it all comes down to the whole "think different"
> concept that was driving Apple - 'The other guys' do it this way? OK,
> that method is out. Find some other way to do it so we're different from
> 'the other guys'.
>
> They also didn't use the "normal" methods of doing internet stuff (which
> we now call "sockets") until MacOS X was released. Prior to that, it was
> either MacTCP (a nightmare of non-portability) or OpenTransport (an even
> worse nightmare than MacTCP), which I personally believe is one of the
> reasons (along with pricing) they lost so much market share once the
> internet took off - It's POSSIBLE, with a huge amount of effort, and a
> learning curve that's damn close to straight up, to write TCP/IP
> applications under MacTCP or OpenTransport, but doing so basically means
> that porting from any "normal" OS (meaning one that uses the pretty well
> standardized "sockets" API) to Mac requires a MASSIVE rewrite of nearly
> the entire program, rather than just tweaking Mac-specific stuff,
> recompiling, and having your "written on Unix/Windoze/whatever" program
> be ready to roll without basically starting from scratch.
>
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