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H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com) wrote:
: > The only place where you might run into trouble is because computer
: > hardware clock maintains the 2-digit date, so that loading the system
: > clock on bootup from the hardware clock would result in a 1900 date in
: > year 2000. This is easy to fix; simply, getting years 00 to 90 from the
: > stupid hardware clock will result in adding 2000, not 1900, to the
: > year, and we are good for 90 more years. Since Linux didn't exist before
: > 1990, it is not going to cause problems :^)

: This is correct.

Yes, but Unix, whose design Linux mimics, did exists prior to 1990.

Larry