[BBC-Micro] Grrr.....annoying master cmos ram

[Rod at Orpheusmail]

In article <061110005504 at arcade.demon.co.uk>,
Jonathan Graham Harston <jgh at arcade.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In article: <38370.82.71.113.222.1163085016.squirrel at webmail.starfleet-net.co.
> Richard Gellman <splodge at starfleet.homeunix.net> wrote:

[snip]

> That's not the IC, it's the controlling software. The IC only keeps a two
> digit year counter. It's up the the controlling software to use that
> two-digit year appropriately. For example, some versions of RISC OS have a
> 'current century' byte in CMOS. Sensibly, the MOS should have implmented
> code that returned 1980-2079. There's plenty of space to fit it in, as
> described on the Abu Dhabi Shipping Company's website.

Can you give a URL please as I can't the information you refer to.

Kind regards
Rod Grover

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