Subj : Dos
To   : Dale Shipp
From : Ben Collver
Date : Sat Feb 25 2023 10:13:26

  Re: Dos
  By: Dale Shipp to Sean Dennis on Sat Feb 25 2023 02:07:10

 SD> It disappoints me that I can't run Scrabble.  If I could get the
 SD> source, I could make sure it doesn't die in 2038 (when DOS programs
 SD> will quit working).

I read that DOS has a year 2107 problem.

> On the other hand, MS-DOS, which internally uses a 1980 year-epoch with
> a byte-sized year counter (and does not use a seconds-based epoch
> unlike Unixes), will be fine up to 2107"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25311468

 DS> I did [not] know that DOS programs had a drop dead date.  Is it some
 DS> sort of cousin to the Y2K problem?  I am using a number of DOS
 DS> programs on my WIN10 system using vDOS.  Do you know if those
 DS> programs should still work?  Not that it matters a lot to me
 DS> personally since I will be

I installed FreeDOS 1.3 in dosbox-x (a cousin of vDOS) on my Linux system.

I read that since calendars repeat and 1999 matches 2038, one can set the
clock back in the DOS VM and the software will run with the wrong year
but the correct week day, etc.  One could party like it's 1999!

https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/repeating.html?year=2038

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