<div dir="auto">The big difference is that was mostly resolved via software. Intel issue is much harder. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 5, 2018 11:48 PM, "Steve Litt" <<a href="mailto:slitt@troubleshooters.com">slitt@troubleshooters.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Fri, 05 Jan 2018 11:27:38 -0700<br>
Eric Oyen <<a href="mailto:eric.oyen@icloud.com">eric.oyen@icloud.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> oh boy. This sounds like another Y2K problem, only this one has some<br>
> reality about it and real consequences.<br>
<br>
Y2K was completely real, and would have had real consequences if our<br>
society hadn't taken three years to fix most of it. We were fortunate<br>
that in those days society was willing to put in hard work to fix a<br>
future problem, rather than "kicking the can down the road."<br>
<br>
Between 1984 and 1991 I wrote plenty of software using 2 digit years.<br>
So did everyone else. Much of the Cobol from the 1960's onward used 2<br>
digit dates to save memory, which was very precious back then. Much of<br>
that software was still used in 1999, and some is still used today. It<br>
got fixed.<br>
<br>
It's speculation what would have happened if our entire society hadn't<br>
pitched in and fixed most software in 1997-1999, but it's my opinion<br>
that if we'd done then what we'd surely do now (call it somebody else's<br>
problem, keep prioritizing our own little lives and those of our<br>
corporations, and do nothing), we'd be bartering gold for tuna and water<br>
for bullets.<br>
<br>
None of this is to imply that Meltdown and Spectre aren't a very big<br>
deal. Just don't think Y2K was no big deal because we did the necessary<br>
work to fix it proactively.<br>
<br>
SteveT<br>
<br>
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