I am bothered by a solution that wires the years 00-69 to be in the
21st century. This only makes PEM workable for the next 78 years or
so. There is already ample precedent that some information from World
War II, some fifty years ago, is STILL classified! 78 is not that
much bigger than 50. Every previous time in computer science that
someone has wired in an artificial limitation (like 2-digit years), we
have all lived to regret it. Some of us remember when a 16-bit
address space was considered large!! Why is it so hard to use fully
specified years, rather than the two digit kludge?
- Paul