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David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:00:27 -0800
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On 18 Mar 99, at 8:09, Roberto Safora wrote:

> Any reason  to supose that not only MOBO, but some network and video
> cards could be afected by the change to year 2000?

  Pretty unlikely.  At that level, timing deltas tend to be done by
counting clock pulses rather than difference between two date/time
stamps.  The drivers (or ROM code) have no reason to go to the extra
trouble of finding out what the OS thinks the date is.


David G

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