[HECnet] SimH, Ultrix and DECnet

Kari Uusim ki uusimaki at exdecfinland.org
Thu Jun 28 22:04:25 PDT 2012


On 28.6.2012 13:09, Mark Benson wrote:
That's a UNIX tradition I think, lot of UNIXs I have used (IRIX,
Solaris, NetBSD to name a few) return the 'preposterous value in Time
if Day clock' or similar error if the date wrong. I think it's
triggered if the system date is prior to the kernel's   date :)


DigitalUnix (OSF/1 or Tru64unix; pick your favourite name) does it as well.


Kari



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