Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Nov 1999 19:46:21 -0500 (EST) | From | Joey Wetherington <> | Subject | Re: Patent |
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On Nov 3, H. Peter Anvin (presumably because of cosmic radiation) uttered:
>Actually, the windowing approach was used in PC-DOS 2.0 (1981-or-so): >if you enter a two-digit date it is mapped on the 1980-2079 window. >
Actually, hasn't McDonnell Douglas just patented the Y2K *bug*, which is mapping two-digit years to the 1900-1999 window?
-- Note that this remark, predating the design of the Common Lisp Object System, uses the term ``generic'' in a generic sense and not necessarily in the technical sense used by CLOS. - Guy L. Steele, Jr., Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition
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