>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?
-- Note that this remark, predating the design of the Common Lisp Object System, uses the term ``generic'' in a generic sense and not necessarily in the technical sense used by CLOS. - Guy L. Steele, Jr., Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition
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