Mahut & Isner match and IBM’s NEW Y2K scoreboard
I was reading today about the new record for the longest tennis match in history. What called my attention was not the match itself. It was actually the fact that IBM’s scoreboard was programmed to go up to 47-47 only. WHAT????
How old is this software? Was it written in COBOl or assembly perhaps?
I mean, how? 6 bits would give you 63 and 5 would give you 31, so what on earth did they do? Also an overflow occurred on 50-50, so it was reset to 0 – this was after the patch was applied overnight.
That’s definitively weird programming, the new y2k in 2010!
You can read about it here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isner–Mahut_match_at_the_2010_Wimbledon_Championships
