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At 07:03 am 12/10/97 GMT, James F. Mazzulla wrote:
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>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.
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>Q. Is the year 2000 PC problem real? I thought it only
>affected mainframes.
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>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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