Re: Date 2000 a problem for Apple II?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <19971103022401.VAA01091@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
SMITTOLA <smittola@aol.com> wrote:
>Is any of the popular software (AWGS or AW Classic, ect.) going to be affected
> by the looming  year 2000 date problem that we hear so much about for
> mainframe systems?

   Less of a problem than getting a few nutballs here to accept that the
millenia doesn't start until 2001.[1]

Nathan Mates

[1] Well, Apple *did* put in only a 6-year table into ProDOS 8, but
they gave us a patcher program on their final versions so you can
manually update that table. GS/OS does a better job not needlessly
shaving bytes.


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