23 Dec
2016
23 Dec
'16
8:25 p.m.
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 07:15:04PM +0200, Diomidis Spinellis wrote:
"Finally, the date(1) a.out on the tape uses 1971
as its archive. How
annoying! After a bit of discussion, Dennis and Warren have agreed that 1972
is the most probable epoch for s2-bits."
I thought I could validate the epoch by looking at the distribution of
weekdays for the three alternative years (1971 to 1973). Here are the
results.
...
As you can see, unless weekends at the Bell Labs were
highly atypical, 1972
has the most probable distribution of work among the days of the week.
Thanks Diomidis, that helps to confirm the 1972 date for the s2-bits tape.
Cheers, Warren