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From: Lucio de Re lucio@pro...
Subject: [9fans] Some plan9 y2k problems
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 06:42:48 +0200

According to Dennis Ritchie:
> 
> Of course, it's also my own birthday.  But maybe I'll
> have died in an aircrash on 1/1/00, so don't plan too
> far ahead.
> 
I'm no bookmaker, but I'm tempted to take bets as to whether _any_ 
aeroplane will in fact be in the air at midnight 1999/12/31.  My 
personal opinion is there won't, the airlines will be too shit-scared 
to risk it.

Imagine the chaos, though, getting all those flight schedules back into 
operation on the next day.

Bottom line, Dennis, I trust we'll live to wish you a happy birthday on 
Unix's billionth secondversary.

++L