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Article #39099Re: The number 31 and Apple?
From: David Casseres
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1989 21:48
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1989 21:48
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In article <901@internal.Apple.COM> stearns@Apple.COM (Bryan Stearns) writes:
>As the original author of INIT 31 (though Larry Kenyon rewrote it before it
>shipped), I can safely say that there's no significance to the number (other
>than that that was the last INIT that would be found by the original boot
>code).
>
>There's no Technical Note 31 because the individual TechNote authors used to
>assign their own numbers ("Hey, Scott! What's the next number?") BEFORE
>writing the note; sometimes we wouldn't get around to finishing a note, and
>the number we picked would get reassigned (or, in this case, not).
Bryan, are you SURE??? I thought it was connected to the fact that a week
has 7 days and a (normal) month has 31, because both numbers are all-one's
in binary so when you implement a binary-logic calendar you get ... Oh,
never mind.
David Casseres
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!apple!casseres From: casseres@Apple.COM (David Casseres) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: The number 31 and Apple? Message-ID: <905@internal.Apple.COM> Date: 10 Mar 89 21:48:52 GMT References: <10330143@accuvax.nwu.edu> <901@internal.Apple.COM> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 18