::: Area #157 (comp.sys.acorn.programmer)
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Date   : Wed Apr  1 17:07:52 1998
From   : Neil Coffey of fidonet#2:254/27.2
To     : All
Subject: Re: Millenium Bug Busters...

In article <ant0113571cbfNdQ@oakseed.demon.co.uk>, James Taylor
<URL:mailto:james@NOSPAM.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Instead of pumping taxpayers' money into this, the government should
> be subsidising British made computer systems that don't suffer from
> the problem, perhaps with incentives to buy British (read Acorn).

Kind of. Except what critical applications are actually being used
on Acorns? If company X decided, "right we'll trash all our peecees
and use Acorns instead", how realistically could it do this?

The major priority is all the ancient granddaddy machines being
used in administrative offices, banks, rail networking etc etc.
If truth be known, it's probably quite scarey how many of these
are still about.

Neil

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