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Can computer cope with the year 2000?
PARIS. Apr 5: Your computer might be able to do all kinds of neat things these days. But can it cope with a simple thing like a year that goes by the number 2(500?
Many computer experts fear not. With 1.000-odd days to go before a new millennium gets underway, they say computer programmes must be rewritten — and fast — to handle the switch, reports AFP.
It's a task that could involve billions of dollars and a lot of headaches, they said.
"It's not Just about rewriting programmes for slightly aging computers. In many cases, an entire corporate computer system, will have to be worked over." said Serge Kampf. head of Cap Gemini, a European leader in computer servicing.
To save on memory and data procession, computers and programmes from the 1970s and 1980s were designed to understand dates in double-digit terms.
Thus they cannot distinguish whether "OO" means 1900 or 2000 — and the knock-on results could well mean computers that crash and programme applications that gum up.
Especially prone to "total chaos" are expensive computers used for airline reservations, banking networks and pension funds. Said Rob Wirszicz chairman of acrisis unit set up last year by «« ifntiiii goVerrinletfV
to look into the issue.
Some other governments think the problem is not so serious. as in many instances aging computer programmes will be updated before January 1. 2000 by ones which can think in four-digit years.
Computer firms are stepping up sophisticated methods to identify 2000-prone programmes. but the very speed at which the industry changes is causing problems.
The first management programmes. written in such languages as Cobol. have in may cases been preserved by their users, albeit upgraded over the years.
Experts say 80 billion lines of Cobol-written programming still exist. Problems is. it is considered a dinosaur language now. and programmes who can handle it are few — and price.
“It is not only management programmes that are going to crash." said Frederique Huynh of the French Computing Security Club. "Telephone switch boards are going to slop transferring calls, intelligent buildings will stop letting people enter with their passes, water and electricity supplies will be cut off." she said.
If nothing is done. US experts estimate, the cost to the global economy of 2000-related computet; .breakdowns will run tint excess*of500 -billion dollars.