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To: louis mason who wrote (8432)2/12/1998 2:19:00 PM
From: Jonathan Bird  Read Replies (2) of 213177
 
Is this true? Does this approaching panic actually only applying to Intel based PC's? I really don't know the answer to this question, I'm just trying to find if our controller has his facts straight.

Mostly true. There is no hardware or OS limitation that would cause problems in year 2000. But that doesn't mean that the programs you run wont have problems. But it's VERY unlikely. It simply remains in the realm of "posibility". If it occurs it certainly would not be the Macs fault. Just wacky programing of a database or something.

The Macs clock was previously expected to overflow sometime in the the second or third decade of 2000 I believe. But there was a recent OS revision that will let it run correctly for substantially longer. As you can see I don't recall any of the specifics. But it was so far in the future that it won't matter.

Jon Bird
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