From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: "'The No! Not this one! The previous one! and Unprofessional
Cygwin-Talk List'" <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: setup.exe --quiet-mode
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <014b01c9142f$d0d7c5b0$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gabi99$5qg$1@ger.gmane.org>
Matthew Woehlke wrote on 11 September 2008 17:51:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>> It was only ever true for Win95 and early versions of Win98. All
>> NT-series OSs count time in units of 100ns using a 64-bit long long.
>> Which won't run out any time soon....
>
> Aww, you don't think a Windows box will manage an uptime of 29,227,102
> years? ;-)
Well, I don't think it'll manage it any time *soon* ... but when it does
happen, <see previous From: line, after allowing for 22-vs-29 typo>.
cheers,
DaveK
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2008-09-11 16:08 ` Matthew Woehlke
2008-09-11 16:39 ` Dave Korn
2008-09-11 16:51 ` Matthew Woehlke
2008-09-11 17:00 ` Dave Korn [this message]
2008-09-11 20:18 ` the importance of the timer rollover bug in Win9x Warren Young
2008-09-11 23:25 ` Dave Korn
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