I was just trying to remember where did I last see this magic number of days.
The article does mention a few instances found over the years, including the windows one. That’s the one I remember though because we used to joke it was not a big deal - the only way for a windows 95 computer to reach 49 days of uptime is if it’s literally not doing anything or being used in any way. Windows 95 would crash if you looked at it funny.
OS/2 had a similar bug, and people used that as a server, so I'm sure it bit some people.
And throws in a Pac-man 8-bit level counter overflow just to remind us that AI cannot be trusted!
says 51 days, which would be an interesting number of (milli)seconds
It could be an overflow but related with the frequency at which the register was increasing, rather than the max value of te register. E.g. +1 this uint16 (65535) once every 500,000 cycles on this 32 Mhz chip, that previously was a 1 Mhz chip and never had a problem.