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Read my latest post and take the test.
BTW, I, as well as many others here, read messages posted
to this LIST =every day=. =Either= post to the LIST =OR=
send a private e-mail. There's no need to do both. You might
want to look up the word "redundant" in the dictionary.
Sheesh, talk about "clueless".
Best regards,
Jim
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997 Ron Augustine wrote:
>Please re-post to:
>
>alt.omega.users.paranoia.hysteria.no-clue.bizarre
>
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>At 07:03 am 12/10/97 GMT, James F. Mazzulla wrote:
>>
>>Someone posted a message to the LIST which professed that
>>the Y2K issue only affected mainframes. Below is a Q&A from
>>a FAQ on one of the 8 gazillion websites devoted to this
>>issue.
>>
>>Q. Is the year 2000 PC problem real? I thought it only
>>affected mainframes.
>>
>>A. The year 2000 problem definitely affects PCs in similar
>>ways to mainframes, with the additional twist that PC users
>>often have no access to the original software program
>>(source code) to do their own fixing. This leaves them
>>completely reliant on the software manufacturers to provide
>>fixes. IMHO the PC problem is worse than the mainframe
>>problem: there are many more PCs in the world, and they run
>>so many different configurations and programs. The problem
>>is compounded as PC software programs are usually very good
>>at exchanging data, which means that year 2000 issues can be
>>passed from one computer to another rather like a computer
>>virus.
>>
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