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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: Peach who wrote (103)8/5/1997 3:23:00 PM
From: TEDennis   of 9818
 
Norm: Re: maintained 99 years in the future ...

I think the "sign" of the value would be critical here. If the on-chip program uses unsigned (meaning insensitive to greater or less than zero ... having no positive or negative attribute) values, then it would indeed seem to be 99 years in the future. If it uses signed values, on the other hand, then it would appear to be 99 years since maintained.

In the latter case, if the equipment had been programmed to shut down, then bad things could happen. Although, realistically speaking, I would expect a warning light to come on, or a warning buzzer to sound ... not to actually shut down the equipment. I find it hard to believe that emergency equipment like a fire engine would be programmed to shut down.

But, stranger things have happened ... we are dealing with people and their innate sense of stupidity, you know.

Have a good one,

TED
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