[Coco] OS-9 Level 2 and 4 digit years

Barry Nelson barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com
Wed Sep 30 02:47:20 EDT 2015


On my NitrOS9 v 3.3.0 system date, dir -e, free, setime and login all appear to support 4 digit years.

> Jerry Cantrill jwcantrill at earthlink.net 
> Tue Sep 29 17:34:57 EDT 2015
> Hi guys;
> 
> I have been playing with OS-9 Level 2 on VCC, I had given up my COCOs 
> several years ago.
> 
> And was looking at what it would take to include 4 digit years into 
> Level 2 vr 2.00, and found updated source for date,dir,free,setime and 
> login CMDS from the old Glenside Y2K project. I thought I could just asm 
> these to build a new boot for 4 digit years.
> 
> Then I found on the coco archive vr 3.00 beta which already has 4 digit 
> years.
> 
> I wondered what the changes were from vr 2.00 to vr 3.00 beta?
> 
> If there is a final version of it or if this was the last version?
> 
> And, if the project was dropped, were the changes included in NitrOS-9?



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