[H-GEN] Win98 bug

[Luke Grant]

(Note reply-to: being general vs "Luke Grant" <skywalke at webexpress.net.au>)

49.7 days......WOW!!!

I dont think i will ever need to worry about that bug......4 days is the
best i have ever got out of 98.

Luke


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Luke Grant
zzlgrant at uq.net.au , skywalke at webexpress.net.au

"You am the Eggman, They are the Eggmen, I am the Walruss"
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-----Original Message-----
From: Marshall, Joshua <MarshallJ at switch.aust.com>
To: general at lists.humbug.org.au <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
Date: Friday, 5 March 1999 8:49
Subject: [H-GEN] Win98 bug


>(Note reply-to: being general vs "Marshall, Joshua"
<MarshallJ at switch.aust.com>)
>
>This was good for a laugh (from the Netsavers Software Newsletter):
>
>----------------------------------
>Windows 98 Updates Will Tackle Bug
>----------------------------------
>Bob Trott, InfoWorld Electric
>
>Posted at 5:24 PM PT, Mar 3, 1999
>A bizarre bug that causes some Windows 98 systems to freeze if they have
>been used for 49.7 straight days will be fixed in forthcoming updates to
>the operating system, a Microsoft representative said Wednesday.
>
>Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows 98 and OEM Service Release 1 (OSR1) are
>both due in the second quarter of this year, the representative said.
>OSR
>1, which will be available on new PCs then, went into its second beta
>release this week.
>
>Also, due to beta testers' complaints that SP1 is too big and unwieldy,
>Microsoft has eliminated the new features it planned to include in the
>service pack, and instead will focus only on updates.
>
>"There was a sort of laundry list of features in it, and they're
>slimming
>it down because Microsoft has always considered [service packs] to be
>updates to existing features, not [a vehicle for] new functionality,"
>the
>representative said.
>
>SP1 likely be available in two forms -- a full download, or in
>components
>that users will be able to choose. Users who request the service pack on
>a
>CD-ROM will get the full package, the representative said.
>
>Both SP1 and OSR 1 will address a flaw in Windows 98 that causes some
>systems to freeze if they have been in continuous operation for 49.7
>days.
>The problem, which stems from a timing algorithm in the operating
>system's
>vtdapi.vxd file, has not been reported by users, but was discovered by
>Microsoft, the representative said.
>
>News of the bug, which can be solved by rebooting, was greeted by
>laughter
>from Microsoft critics who consider Windows an unreliable operating
>system.
>
>"Hats off to anyone who was able to keep their Windows system running
>that
>long in the first place," one observer quipped. "They probably figured
>nobody would get 50 straight days out of it anyway."
>
>
>
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