The main DEC Y2K readiness web page may be found at URL http://ww1.digital.com/year2000/e_home.html. A DEC Year 2000 Readiness White Paper for Digital Unix may be found at URL http://www.unix.digital.com/unix/year2000/whitepaper.html. It includes a section on "Methodologies and Guidelines for Testing Applications", as well as a section on "Digital Unix Year 2000 Readiness", which describes the Y2K compliant version of Digital Unix, DIGITAL UNIX Version 4.0D. There are also patches for Y2K compliance for Digital unix 4.0D, which are described on a web page found at URL http://www.unix.digital.com/unix/year2000/whitepaper.html#y2k-patches. DEC describes 4.0D as the Digital unix version necessary for full Y2K compliance.
There is a downloadable Y2K analysis tool for Digital Unix applications known as "y2ksniff", the download URL's for which are:
The DEC operating system "Ultrix" has a readiness program as well, and a Y2K "readiness kit" for Ultrix can be purchased from DEC . Details may be found on a web page at URL http://www.unix.digital.com/unix/year2000/overview.html. The "ULTRIX and UWS Year 2000 Readiness Kit" contains patches for the following Ultrix releases:
An "ULTRIX and UWS Year 2000 Readiness Program" whitepaper may be found at URL http://www.unix.digital.com/unix/year2000/ultrixy2k.html.
Y2K readiness for DEC products, searchable by part number, may be checked via a Y2K "Readiness Database" found at URL http://ww1.digital.com/year2000/status.asp.
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