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Re: is Mindstorm/RCX Y2K Compliant???
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 22 Jan 1999 22:33:05 GMT
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On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:21:06 GMT, "Dave Forrest" <davef@shmoopie.com>
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> "....even when only relative time is required by the OEMs, this may
> often be derived from chips that keep absolute time internally. Those
> chips that represent absolute time using two digit dates are subject to
> Year-2000 failures just as with computers and software as has been
> more widely reported. The logic "It does not need to keep dates,
> therefore it does not keep dates." has no basis in the internal operation
> of the chip. This has resulted in a number of systems being declared
> Year-2000-compliant when in fact their firmware has not been tested.
> The question is not "Does it need a date?" the question is "Does it use
> time in any way?"
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> from http://www.tmn.com/~frautsch/y2k2.html
Which is what I was talking about. Of course, I have no idea if the
microcontroller in the RCX does this, or not.
Jasper
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