User`s manual

DIGITAL-LOGIC AG MSLB-P5 Manual V0.3
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2.8 This product is “YEAR 2000 CAPABLE”
This DIGITAL-LOGIC product is “YEAR 2000 CAPABLE”. This means, that upon installation, it accu-
rately stores, displays, processes, provides and/or receives date data from, into, and between 1999
and 2000, and the 20. and 21. centuries, including leap year calculations, provided that all other tech-
nology used in combination with said product properly exchanges date data with it. DIGITAL-LOGIC
makes no representation about individual components within the product should be used independ-
ently from the product as a whole.
You should understand that DIGITAL-LOGIC’s statement that an DIGITAL-LOGIC product is “YEAR
2000 CAPABLE” means only that DIGITAL-LOGIC has verified that the product as a whole meet this
definition when tested as a stand-alone product in a test lab, but dies not mean that DIGITAL-LOGIC
has verified that the product is “YEAR 2000 CAPABLE” as used in your particular situation or configu-
ration. DIGITAL-LOGIC makes no representation about individual components, including software,
within the product should they be used independently from the product as a whole.
DIGITAL-LOGIC customers use DIGITAL-LOGIC products in countless different configurations and in
conjunction with many other components ans systems, and DIGITAL-LOGIC has no way to test
wheter all those configurations and systems will properly handle the transition to the year 2000.
DIGITAL-LOGIC encourages its customers and others to test whether their own computer systems
and products will properly handle the transition to the year 2000.
The only proper method of accessing the date in systems is indirectly from the Real-Time-Clock via
the BIOS. The BIOS in DIGITAL-LOGIC computerboards contain a century checking and maintenance
feature the checks the laest two significant digits of the year stored in the RTC during each BIOS re-
quest (INT 1A) to read the date and, if less than ‘80’ (i.e. 1980 is the first year supported by the PC),
updates the century byte to ‘20’. This feature enables operating systems and applications using BIOS
date/time services to reliably manipulate the year as a four-digit value.