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Originally Posted by Fully Vetted
Remember all the hupla over 9/9/99? They were saying that computers didn't know what to do after reaching all 9's and everything was going to shut down.
BTW - to answer your question - why, 12:12, of course...
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I know back then on the systems I wrote code on, without patches these systems would have failed on all 9's. They didn't because lots of work was done. Most people just thought it was a fluke that nothing happened.