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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 08:33:24 -0500
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From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: Make bug/wart/oddity, Make v 3.76.1
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At 03:05 PM 2/28/99 +0200, you wrote:
>Short answer: Upgrade to Make 3.77 (v2/mak377b.zip from the usual DJGPP 
>places); it should solve this problem.

There's a newer version? Hm.

>Longer answer: this is (not surprisingly) a Windows problem.

It fiddles with the real-time clock instead of letting it advance as per
normal? That sounds like an intentional misfeature rather than a bug.
Perhaps Bill Gates is trying to corrupt the standard of time measurement,
having corrupted the COFF and Java standards before it. Perhaps Bill Gates
shouldn't have been so ambitious, since that would violate the Weights and
Measures Act and make the current problems he's having with Uncle Sam look
like a tempest in a teapot in comparison to what would then be in store for
him. :-)

>Ha!  Since when is logic part of MS-Windows (or any MS software, for that 
>matter)???

Well, the underlying hardware is deterministic :P

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