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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:02:41 +0100
From: James Cownie <jcownie@dolphinics.com>
Organization: Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
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Subject: Re: Y2K compliance.
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James Oliver wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Has anyone out there got any information of the Y2K compliance (or lack
> thereof) of MPI?  If you could point me in the right direction of who to ask
> I would be greatly appreciative.
> 

MPI is a standard, not an implementation. IIRC there isn't any date
handling 
required by the MPI standard, so the issue of Y2K compliance is moot.

Of course any specific implementation can choose internally to be broken
wrt this
as it can wrt to any other issue :-(

-- Jim 

James Cownie			<jcownie@dolphinics.com>
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