Author: wayne johnson
Date: 15:01:06 12/04/98
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On December 04, 1998 at 14:48:27, Laurence Chen wrote: >Since Y2K is just around the corner, I was just wondering if the chess programs >are affected by the millenium bug. Specially programs written for DOS. I found >out that Microsoft has released a service pack for the Windows NT 4 to fix this >bug. And since DOS has been around longer than any Windows OS, what will happen >to the DOS OS when the Y2K arrive? And how about the chess program written for >DOS, will they also be affected? How about the Windows Chess programs? Yes it will, only if bios is not patched or dos doesn't correctly handle date change. The freedos project via the web, is going to release a version that can supposedly be able to do so. But when, is anybody's guess the project at last I heard is still moving very slow. I believe they now have version compatible only with ms-dos version 3.3 Good luck with copy protected software????
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