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Re: Year 2000 Bug - ACS Calls for Greater Cooperation

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From: Derek Woodlands
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 00:00
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On Sun, 27 Jul 1997 09:04:09 +0900, dvincent@zeta.org.au (D A Vincent)
wrote:
 
> Your plain old intel box running, say, MS-DOS 3.1, probably would not have
> passed the test.  On the other hand, application programs of that era
> would have been more likely to have bypassed the MS-DOS date/time handling
> facilities to provide themselves something more flexible.
 
To check this out, I booted an old Epson XT running DOS 3 and the date
uses a 4 digit year code.  The old Epson is fine when it comes to the
year 2000.
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From: kingpin@zip.net.au (Derek Woodlands)
Subject: Re: Year 2000 Bug - ACS Calls for Greater Cooperation
Date: 1997/07/28
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