Lots of good comments went by on the software aspects of Y2K, but what
about the hardware? I bet I'm not the only cheapskate ham still running
old PCs with non-compliant BIOS. But there _is_ a solution. Go to
www.caldera.com and download the latest version of DR-DOS (free for
personal use). The DR-DOS kernal detects an out-of-range date during
boot and corrects it. Poof! Your hardware is now (apparently)
compliant. We now return you to your previously-scheduled software
compliance problems. :)
By the way, DR-DOS comes with a nifty dual-boot loader, so you can train
it to fix the date and then load Windoze, if that's your preference.
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On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 23:06:42 +1300 Martin Ellis <jmellis@ihug.co.nz>
writes:
>
>Good morning,
>We have an information overload of advice on PC's as to
>possible problems in the year 2000. It seems that the older
>models of 286 and 386 are unlikely to be year 2000 compliant.
>
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