> > The Y2K bug is actually more a firmware problem rather than a software
> > problem. The reason is that although most modern operating systems will
> > work fine into the next millenium, the PC BIOS is the critical stumbling
> > block. Regardless of how good your OS is, it still has to grab the
> > date and time from the system BIOS, and if that's wrong, then so is
> > your software. Fortunately, most semi-critical systems can be manually
> > set on New Years Day of 2000 without too much of a problem. Critical
> > systems have to be upgraded.
>
> IT is not the BIOS that is the problem, it is the software loaded into bios. The
> only thing lower then software is hardware, what tells hardware what todo?
> Software.
If you read carefully my original post (requoted here), you will see
that I used the term "firmware", which is precisely the correct term
to use because the BIOS is somewhere between being true hardware
and true software.
Your quest for precision, however, is appreciated. :-)
Shalom
-- Alex Borodin - Software and Systems Engineer - Queensland Rail Ph: +61-7-3235-2482 Fax:+61-7-3235-2747 "He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee." - Job 5:19