- From: Michael John Downes <mjd@ams.org>
- Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 13:10:55 -0400
- To: www-math@w3.org
David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> writes: > The official reason given for this policy change: > TeX/LaTeX unlike SGML is not Y2K compliant > > Huh? > > This must be the daftest reason imaginable. I suspect that the misunderstanding arose this way: They were running a vintage 1991 version of PCTeX or something similar and whoever they consulted about it said that it would probably not work on January 1 2000, without explaining that the principal reason for the failure would be the OS rather than the application.
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