> Of course, that doesn't anything to do with it though. A simple > count of 100Hz ticks would fill an unsigned 32 bit integer in 497 > days, 2 hours, 27 minutes, 52.96 seconds. > After which it would wrap around to zero. > > Interestingly enough Windows 95 had almost exactly the same > situation, but since they counted at 1000Hz, it triggered after > only 49.7 days. The result was a little worse too: the machine > crashed. Strangely enough this bug was not discovered until the > year 2000.
That is doubly funny: 1. Windows is so far from real time, why would they bother counting in ms 2. It took years for any windows 95 machine to last that long w/o rebooting! -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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