February 17, 1999

A Trivial, Nearly Clerical Exercise

Those of you who are old enough to remember the era of 16-bit to 32-bit code conversion, especially in the Microsoft world, will recall that on the surface, it seemed like a trivial, nearly clerical exercise. In its own way, it seemed every bit as ridiculous as the Y2K problem. Yet, for many of the same reasons, it was an expensive and tedious chore…

Posted by foote at February 17, 1999 06:42 PM