Re: Patent

Joey Wetherington (hjweth@ibm.net)
Wed, 3 Nov 1999 19:46:21 -0500 (EST)


On Nov 3, H. Peter Anvin (presumably because of cosmic radiation) uttered:

>Actually, the windowing approach was used in PC-DOS 2.0 (1981-or-so):
>if you enter a two-digit date it is mapped on the 1980-2079 window.
>

Actually, hasn't McDonnell Douglas just patented the Y2K *bug*,
which is mapping two-digit years to the 1900-1999 window?

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