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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (67)	2/5/1998 10:41:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Respond to of 618

John - The Year 2000 issue - or Millennium Bug - is the result of decisions by programmers of the 1960s to save memory space by using only the last two digits of a year, instead of all four I know those aren't your words & I know it's futile, but I do need to strongly state that programmers weren't the ones that did this. Use of two digits was a seemed-reasonable-at-the-time business decision. Capacity planners & sharp penciled bean counters did the numbers & decreed it too expensive to carry all that extra data around. So blame the cost accountants please! Absolutely true story... I worked on a big life insurance system that used data names such as M0101, M0102, M0103, etc. because the efficiency experts were saving gobs of money on fast keypunching! - David