[Info-vax] Clustering on VMS 4.7

[Bob Koehler]

In article <74rc9uF14tuubU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> 
> Actually, I had no Y2K problem with any system I was working with at the time.
> The "Y2K Bug" has to be the only thing I have seen that was hyped more than
> Linux with even less substance.
> 

   We did, but they were little things that can fairly easily be worked
   around.

   We had a couple of MS-DOS systems around because the 80286 they were
   on implemented an "optional" ISA bus signal and we had a custom card
   that used it.  The version of MS-DOS that would run on them would
   only prompt for a 2 digit year.  All you had to do is ignore the
   prompt and enter 4 digits.

   At home, my Pro350 will not accept a four digit year and assumes that
   everything is 19yy.  If I set it up as 3/31/1999 23:59 it will roll
   over just fine, but I haven't tried to write code to set the clock
   correctly.  I don't recall all the TKB stuff I used to know from RSX, 
   and I don't have any RSX or P/OS API documentation.

   Besides, my Alphas play games much faster.

   One of my neighboors who knows I do computer stuff asked me about Y2K
   sometime in 1999.  Would commerce really come to an end?  I told him 
   as far as I knew truck drivers weren't going to stop delivering goods
   that night, but someone's computerised order system might need a
   paper based workaround for a little while.

   The biggest Y2K problem I recall actually being reported was some
   cash registers that couldn't handle credit cards with an expiration
   date past 1999.