The millennium-bug muddle.
Unless they are reprogrammed, many computers will crash or begin to behave incoherently on January 1, 2000, a date that they will mistake for 1900. This “millenium bug” is due to the decision by the first generation of computer-programmers to save valuable space on their punched cards by recording...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 345; pp. 17 - 19 |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
October 4 1997
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