Subject: Re: DN4500 - Apollo - Is there a BSD
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Alex Bochannek <abochann@cisco.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/22/1997 18:25:20
Maybe here's some incentive:

> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:15:14 EST
> From: rees@umich.edu (Jim Rees)
> Subject: Apollo date bug coming soon
> 
> Year 2000 is coming earlier for users of Apollo workstations.  At 14:59 GMT
> on November 2, 1997, the high bit of the Domain/OS system clock will become
> set, and system bugs will prevent machines running unpatched software from
> booting.  HP has released a fix, but it only runs on newer equipment, and
> has a bug of its own.  Users of Apollo machines built before the dn3000 will
> simply be out of luck.
> 
> Details are available at <http://pisa.citi.umich.edu/date-bug>.

Alex.