Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote:
From: USCMike1@aol.com
NEW YORK -- In a stark demonstration of the global scale of the Year 2000 computer problem, representatives of 130 nations gathered at the United Nations Friday to hammer out plans for dealing with Y2K.
The ideas included setting up national and international "SWAT teams" to handle crises caused by the computer glitch.
The U.N. conference marked the first such gathering of Y2K coordinators from several nations, including many developing countries that lag far behind the United States in remediation efforts.
Y2K refers to a programming glitch that will cause some computers, softwar= e programs and microprocessors to interpret the abbreviated date 00 as 1900 rather than 2000. The result could be incorrect data processing and equipment malfunctions.
Is is (approximately) known how many percent of the owners of computer systems have ever tried with some test cases to find out whether their hardware/software could be susceptible to the Y2K problem? I guess such tests would deliver some confidence intervals of whether the problem could actually arise at 2000. M. K. Shen