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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 4520100, member: 59677&quot;]The reason nothing bad happened is the billions of dollars spent on remediation.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the general commercial world, would it have been the end? No. I&#039;ve been in the industry since the late 70s and I wrote some of that code that would have given weird results. You might have gotten a bill for 97 bajillion dollars. Or negative amounts due. But the world wouldn&#039;t have ended.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the embedded systems that run critical infrastructure, the issues could have been a lot worse. Luckily the world was less computerized back then, and turning off the machines for a couple hours over midnight was enough. A lot of critical infrastructure was run by hand for those hours. But if you have a machine with a six hour memory, by hour seven, nobody cares.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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