The millennium bug.

Anticipates how computers are going to interpret the year when the millennium dawns. Focus on the software engineers in the 1960s who decided to save digital memory by programming computers to expect every year to begin with "19"; Loss of mankind's innocence in the 20th century; Hope regarding fixin...

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Publicado en:	Economist Vol. 340; no. 7977; p. 20
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Economist Newspaper Limited 8/3/1996
Materias:	Year 2000 date conversion (Computer systems) Software maintenance Millennium (Eschatology) Computer software Computer programmers Software engineering Computer storage devices
Acceso en línea:	Ver este registro en EBSCOhost