Everhart, Glenn
From:	jonathan@Kowhai.Stanford.EDU
Sent:	Friday, June 26, 1998 4:45 AM
To:	Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject:	Re: Advice wanted Y2K remediation for Vax
In article <1998Jun19.065823.1@eisner>, kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
|> In article <3589F24E.C367CDA5@NOSPAM.bigfoot.com>, Alfred Loo <alloo@NOSPAM.bigfoot.com> writes:
|> 
|> >     A wild idea that  I have is to rework all the financial apps eg
|> > accounts payable etc and run it in a Y2K compliant environment.  Put the
|> > GL program in another separate machine and set the clock backwards by 28
|> > years*. Write some interface with some date translation.
|> 
|> Somebody claims to have patented the idea of setting the clock back
|> 28 years.  I would not worry too much about that because when the
|> year 2000 arrives there will not be enough lawyers to go around.
|> 

There's prior art.  The DECstation PROM forces the clock to always be
sometime in 1972; the OS treats it as a time-of-year and gets the
nearest year from the filesystem.  I doubt a patent on this would
stand up, unless it dates before 1991.

Hm.  Perhaps COMPAQ will be sued for patent violation? :->