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Just another revolting peasant in a Hermit Kingdom
@murphyslawyer
This account is moribund and is retained for identity protection purposes only.
Jun 9, 2018 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
Okay, it's thread time. Back in 1999, I was part of a very large team who were tasked with auditing all the software our company used to see whether or not it could handle moving from 31 December 1999 to 1 January 2000 without messing up. Brace yourselves, this is (1/18) This wasn't just running it and resetting the clock on the PC. Most of our software ran on mainframes: we had some Microsoft stuff, but most of it was on VAX and Alpha servers, running multiple programs at once. (2/18)