On Wed, 2 Dec 1998 21:29:51 EST, [log in to unmask] wrote:
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>After all who created the Millenium Bug but the IT experts?
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On Thu, 03 Dec 1998 10:09:30 , "Ahmad Risk" wrote:
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>Wrong. We (humans) created it by our inbuilt sloppiness.
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Wrong again! As an ex-mainframe (that's an old, big, slow box for those who
have never come across the term before) programmer, it was came about
because no-one was prepared to stand up to the finance-droids and make them
pay for the extra memory needed to write the programs properly!
Ron
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