[1748] in Release_7.7_team
Revised: Case 138885: y2k and private Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Wed Apr 7 18:39:26 1999
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 18:39:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
How about this for a reply:
As documented in our Y2K accountability statement
(http://mitvma.mit.edu/mity2k/athena.html):
Information Systems will perform testing and remediation (i.e.
necessary fixes and problem prevention) for all Athena clusters and
Athena software. Testing has already begun and we expect no material
disruptions for this critical system.
Athena workstations owned by departments use the same software so it
will be tested by IS. IS, through the release-announce mailing list,
will make available information about which versions of Athena are
Y2K compliant. Departments should expect to update workstations to
Athena 8.3.
We are on target for integrating IRIX 6.5 into Athena, and by the end of
the summer we expect people will be able to upgrade to the version 8.3
release of Athena which will be based on it.
We would have liked to have offered the option of patching IRIX 6.2 and
IRIX 6.3 for those sites unable to take the IRIX 6.5-based Athena
release. Unfortunately SGI insists on mixing Y2K remedies with
additional functionality, and other changes that made prohibitively
expensive the cost of producing and testing a patch update to those
systems.
In direct answer to your query, Y2K compliance will be automatic with
the approprate Athena software upgrade. But that upgrade is not
expected to be available until the end of the Summer.
-wdc
