[Info-vax] 2010 date issues

[Paul Sture]

In article <qIadna4qLqK-dM3WnZ2dnUVZ_jSdnZ2d at giganews.com>,
 "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:

> The silliest part of the whole thing was that the problem had been 
> pointed out as early as 1975 and no one did anything about it until the 
> fall of 1999.  Panic time!!!!!

The problem as I recall it was that in the early 1980s we didn't expect 
our applications to last so long without a complete rewrite necessitated 
by moving to a new platform.

In spite of reports that IBM code compiled way back when still runs 
today, unless you had already reached the dizzy heights of IBM's top 
offerings  (e.g. MVS) when you started your development, you were 
probably  in for a rewrite by moving up to a larger model.

-- 
Paul Sture