Year 2000 problems for Ultrix DECStations?

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From: Chris Siebenmann
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 00:00

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 I have a (smallish, but still present) number of Ultrix DECStations
running Ultrix 4.3 and 4.3a that are unlikely to be replaced (or
upgraded to a new version of Ultrix) before Jan 1 2000 (as both
options would require money that we don't have around for this,
and which would probably be better spent replacing the machines
anyways).

 Does anyone know how badly affected they will likely be by Y2K, or
any other near-time upcomming date events, such as Feb 29 2000? (They
will be out of service well before 2038, if only because of hardware
failures.)

 Will I be able to keep things running by installing GNU date (and
possibly GNU touch) and ignoring SCCS (we've always used RCS)?

	- cks

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