::: Area #157 (comp.sys.acorn.programmer)
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Date   : Mon Mar 30 23:20:01 1998
From   : William Gallafent of fidonet#2:254/27.2
To     : All
Subject: Re: Millenium Bug Busters...

In article <ant302051d07vrZg@debussy.demon.co.uk>, Neil Coffey
<URL:mailto: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.
>

That's more or less what I picked up too. I agree, it sounds pretty
hairy. Next time you get ill, better hope you don't end up in a
hospital where someone who hadn't seen a computer a year ago has
reprogrammed the life support / x-ray / coffee machine .....

Cheers,

--
Bill Gallafent

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