At 16:42 -0500 on 11/09/2010, Tony Harminc wrote about Re: ASCBINTS:

A number of ms since 1970, aside from being extremely UNIXy,
would be a very much smaller number than that.

I have a vague impression that DOS/370 used 1970 as its epic date. This caused some interesting problems if you were switching back and forth by IPL'ing the different operating systems since you had to remember to reset it when you IPL'ed.

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