Comment by loloquwowndueo
7 hours ago
lol reminds me of the windows 95 crash bug after 49.7 days. Have we learned nothing. https://pipiscrew.github.io/posts/why-window/
7 hours ago
lol reminds me of the windows 95 crash bug after 49.7 days. Have we learned nothing. https://pipiscrew.github.io/posts/why-window/
I was just trying to remember where did I last see this magic number of days.
The article does mention a few instances found over the years, including the windows one. That’s the one I remember though because we used to joke it was not a big deal - the only way for a windows 95 computer to reach 49 days of uptime is if it’s literally not doing anything or being used in any way. Windows 95 would crash if you looked at it funny.
And throws in a Pac-man 8-bit level counter overflow just to remind us that AI cannot be trusted!
OS/2 had a similar bug, and people used that as a server, so I'm sure it bit some people.
49-7=42 it is all clear
probably same thing for boeing 787 jets - https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/02/boeing_787_power_cycl...
says 51 days, which would be an interesting number of (milli)seconds
It could be an overflow but related with the frequency at which the register was increasing, rather than the max value of te register. E.g. +1 this uint16 (65535) once every 500,000 cycles on this 32 Mhz chip, that previously was a 1 Mhz chip and never had a problem.
Quite literally "the new old thing."
that's why the 49.7 days sounded familiar!