Re: Year 2000

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

At 03:01 PM 9/27/97 +0000, you wrote:
>on 09/27/97at 01:40 AM, the Great and Grand  Wazir DAsmussen@aol.com said:
>
>
when Y2K comes.  YOU (and your 179,999 friends) will be the ones
>
hurting.
>Sys/36 uses sliding window y2k in the operating system.  It won't fall
>over dead on 03 Jan 2000.  Unless the user's files are heavily indexed and
>sorted on dates he'll be able to run with a few silly looking quirks and a
>few downright bad-things.  If the user is running a Sys/36 it is probably
>a very static situation.  I see hurt coming and embarassment, but any
>company that fails because of Y2K was on the banana peel anyway. 
>----------------------------------------------------
>Booth Martin       Contract Programming, Inc.
>---------------------------------------------------
Booth-

HELP

Where did this sliding window in the S/36 operating system come from? 
Maybe you  could  explain for me?  Perhaps I am a  tad bit dense coming
back from a week at COMMON ( tired-  YES without a doubt)

I  just do not recall any feature in the  normal S/36 Operating system.
VASP  had  some snap on offerings and some  restraints. Then some marketing
 limitations which pointed  all towards the Advanced 36  AS/400 models or
any of the later  models with the current operating system on the 400.

   What did I miss

Glenn
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PS:  I don't think the 36  will die either but  it IBM is making it more
attractive  everyday to switch.
 
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