[Ti] [OT] what to say to Windows users:

[Kynan Shook]

It's not like Microsoft actually *created* the Y2K bug; that's been in 
computers since long before Microsoft ever came into existence, simply 
for the sake of saving space in memory.  What most likely happened is 
that early hardware that Microsoft was writing for (or perhaps even the 
college student that wrote DOS was the one that made this mistake 
originally) planned on the same old hardware that expected the year in 
2 digits.  Even early Apple machines have a similar problem, limiting 
them up to either 2019 or 2040.  Nobody thought about the 2-digit date 
being a problem until it got fairly close to 2000.


Kynan Shook
kshook at mac.com
http://homepage.mac.com/kshook/index.html

b <fl1pper at earthlink.net> writes
> Computer (IT) people aren't money people, and money people
> (purchasing/Planning) aren't computer people. Microsoft sees the
> reality of this every time they look at their margins. Do you think
> MS 'accidentally' created the y2k 'bug'? It generated over $12
> Billion US for MS and MS-certified 'consultants'. But enough. A child
> in 1995 would know that "2000 was coming", as did Apple