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Re: No Slot Clock and Day Of Week apps?



sicklittlemonkey wrote:
On Jun 21, 5:18 pm, Michael J. Mahon <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:

Nick, I can't think of anything that cares what DOW a clock reports


I can think of something that cares ... an AppleWin user. ;-)
Currently the AppleWin NSC emulation uses 1=SUN.

If someone has old programs (perhaps that they wrote themselves)
written before the NSC vendors adopted this newer convention, they'll
be unhappy, and potentially want to be able to configure this as an
emulation option.

Anyway, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Right.  If NSC actually used two different conventions, then
a configurable option would be the only conforming emulation.

The problem only arises because of the implicit "set" of the
NSC to the host's real-time clock.  If the NSC setting utility
had to be run, the actual covention could be NSC's little secret.

-michael

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