23 Apr
2007
23 Apr
'07
1:05 p.m.
Is the suspense killing you? :)
The chopped off line:
31-JUL-31086 02:48:05.47
Sorry,
De
1:33 p.m.
Dennis Boone wrote:
Is the suspense killing you? :)
The chopped off line:
31-JUL-31086 02:48:05.47
I don't know if it was ever published externally, but there was
an old SPR (Software Performance Report) that noted that DCL
(the VMS shell) only supported 4-digit dates but that Engineering
expected to fix it "before 9999".
Antonio
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On 4/23/07, arcarlini at iee.org <arcarlini at iee.org> wrote:
Dennis Boone wrote:
I've seen the SPR, or at least comments from it, so I think it did get
out somehow.
Beware Y10K!
-ethan
31-JUL-31086 02:48:05.47
I don't know if it was ever published externally, but there was
an old SPR (Software Performance Report) that noted that DCL
(the VMS shell) only supported 4-digit dates but that Engineering
expected to fix it "before 9999". 
3 p.m.
On 23/4/07 19:00, "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
On 4/23/07, arcarlini at iee.org <arcarlini at
iee.org> wrote:
I'm sure it did, I remember laughing muchly at it back in the day.....
--
Adrian/Witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer
collection?
Dennis Boone wrote:
I've seen the SPR, or at least comments from it, so I think it did get
out somehow. 31-JUL-31086 02:48:05.47
I don't know if it was ever published externally, but there was
an old SPR (Software Performance Report) that noted that DCL
(the VMS shell) only supported 4-digit dates but that Engineering
expected to fix it "before 9999".
3:18 p.m.
On 4/23/07, Adrian Graham <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk> wrote:
On 23/4/07 19:00, "Ethan Dicks"
<ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
This is what I remember running across a long time ago...
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/calendar_time_y2k_etc.html#nov-17-1858
On 4/23/07, arcarlini at iee.org <arcarlini at
iee.org> wrote:
I'm sure it did, I remember laughing muchly at it back in the day..... Dennis Boone wrote:
I've seen the SPR, or at least comments from it, so I think it did get
out somehow. 31-JUL-31086 02:48:05.47
I don't know if it was ever published externally, but there was
an old SPR (Software Performance Report) that noted that DCL
(the VMS shell) only supported 4-digit dates but that Engineering
expected to fix it "before 9999".
4:31 p.m.
On 23/4/07 20:18, "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
Yep, looks familiar. I've probably still got that printed out somewhere :)
--
Adrian/Witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer
collection?
I'm sure
it did, I remember laughing muchly at it back in the day.....
This is what I remember running across a long time ago...
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/calendar_time_y2k_etc.html#nov-17-1858 
3:29 p.m.
Dennis Boone wrote:
I can totally see that. Somebody had to write the report, and he _had_
to note any possible shortcomings, and the form probably _required_ a
date for the expected (naturally) solution.
Maybe I'm thinking that way because I'm teaching at a gov't agency this
week. :\
Doc
Is the suspense killing you? :)
The chopped off line:
31-JUL-31086 02:48:05.47
I don't know if it was ever published externally, but there was
an old SPR (Software Performance Report) that noted that DCL
(the VMS shell) only supported 4-digit dates but that Engineering
expected to fix it "before 9999".
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