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To: William H Huebl who wrote (24025)	10/11/1999 7:54:00 AM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24894

Bill, I don't understand the Y2K stuff. Housemate has a grasp on the subject. If he has questions, he can ask staff at work. We have a very old PC, a 486. Saturday night he examined the Y2K problem. From what he said, he looked at the same things as your son but from a different angle. I won't even try to second guess what he might decide to do tomorrow or even the next day about Y2K for the home PC. The most we may have to do is to reset something or the other every time it crashes. Of course, it crashes often because it runs Windows. But at this time, we need a new furnace more than we need a new home PC. His PC at work runs Solaris 7 and it is Y2K compliant so he is very happy, and he is preoccupied with a program called PERL which he likes very much. M......