Thus it was written in the epistle of Eric Bender,
> At 01:33 PM 9/23/1998 +0300, Costas Anastassiades wrote:
> >I'm not sure if this is an "old one", even so it's ok for a slice of midweek
> >humor :
>                         <snip>
> >Bill Gates went back to Microsoft and happily announced, "I have two
> >fantastic announcements:  First, I am one of the three most important people
> >on earth and second, the year 2000 problem is solved."
>                         <snip>
>
> Yep, indeed it's an old one. First time I heard it, Bill Gates was able to
> announce that "the Windows 95 (i.e., on-time release) problem is solved".
> Regards, Eric Bender

And before that the OS/2 would never succeed.

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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[To D'Alembert about Lagrange. Euler had vacated the post.]
To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a
half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will
especially please the anatomical members of my Academy.
                                        -- Frederick the Great (1712-1786)