Soleron on 26 May 2009
| Dodece said: Microsoft was in no way responsible for the Y2K bug, and technically it wasn't a bug to begin with. The bug was a coding shortcut used by everybody to save space within system cache which was extremely limited. Once again everyone did this. Laying the blame on any one party is asinine. |
I'm not blaming Microsoft, but it was only Windows that suffered from this. Unix systems did not, and they have their own Y2K-like bug in 2038. Since the world runs on a single system they are all hit by these bugs at once. With diversity, individual bugs don't have as much impact. This is independent of how preventable the glitch was; they WILL happen and in that case we need lots of independently designed systems (not better; just different) to withstand it.
Do you see what I mean?
