>At 03:48 PM 1/12/00 EST, Ernst wrote:
>>From a programming perspective, my own top "why 2K" question is this this:
>>even given that the person(s) who first used a mere 2 characters to store
>>the year had good reason (e.g. severely limited computer memory) to do so,
>>why didn't they use those 2 precious bytes as a 2-byte integer?
I think its due to punched cards. Reading and writing 2 digit dates on the
punched card makes using PIC 99 COMPUTATIONAL inappropriate.
Regards
George
P.S. Yes I'm old enough to have used punch cards.
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