Re: Date 2000 a problem

[brian.hammack@rook.wa.com (Brian Hammack)]

 Randy outgassed these fumes:

 SFC(| The ProDOS file system does because if the year field is zero,
     | the date is invalid. I have to look in my manuals but I think the
     | IIgs may not like a zero year either.

ProDOS is ProDOS, no matter what Apple is using it.  And yes, ProDOS
must be patched about every 6 years regardless of why.  :)

     | Maybe that's a surprise to the Apple hater crowd since they're
     | convinced that Apple sabotaged the IIgs from the get-go

[Not having any desire to get into the Mac-vs-GS "sabotage" thread...]
Has nothing to do with the GS.  The ProDOS 2.x system was hobbled.  :)

My question is, why didn't the folks who made the PC's not use any
vision to see what would happen in 5-25 years from their manufacture?
Apple may not have acted as though *any* of its machinery would be in
use six years after a given hardware/software upgrade, but they did not
paint themselves into the corner quite as bad as the IBM/clones have.

 * 2qwk! 2.04 * NETWORK:  A way of having a computer crash by remote keyboards
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yet another annoying post by brian.hammack@rook.wa.com -- deal with it.