::: Area #157 (comp.sys.acorn.programmer)
Message: #30330 (Read 7 times, has 0 replies, 1916 bytes)
Date   : Tue Mar 31 00:10:26 1998
From   : Remove_This_To_Mail_Me of fidonet#2:254/27.2
To     : All
Subject: Re: Millenium Bug Busters...

In article <ant302051d07vrZg@debussy.demon.co.uk>, Neil Coffey
<neil.coffey@st-annes.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> This is not really on-topic. I was intrigued to hear today about
> the government's plan to pump money into training people to fix
> the Millenium Bug. The way I interpreted it was that they were
> actually hoping to within the space of one year train 20,000
> non-programmers to a level of programming where they could "check
> and fix" hardware/software with the "bug".
>
> Have I misinterpreted the proposal? -- as I understand it it seems
> completely bonkers.

Not quite.  Project 2000 is a very large effort to find out what will crash
and what will not.  I work at Longbenton in Newcastle for Sema Group and
know a little about what is going on.  What is proposed is that (at
longbenton at least) people will be trained up to put a floppy disk onto the
computer, load windoze, go to File, click on Run and type "a:\test.exe" to
find out if the PC's are millenium compilant.  There is no progamming.  just
a matter of the big bosses saying "we keep those PC's and throw those away"
What the banks and other buisnesses are doing on the other hand is another
matter.

Aidan


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