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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 2: NO MOAT IN BLOAT From Cosmic Rays to Bungee Jumps

"Y2K remediation required large-scale renovation, validation, integration testing, and testing of interactions among interconnected systems."

GAO warned that validation could take more than a year and consume over half of Y2K program resources because systems and interfaces had to be tested together.

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Source title Year 2000 Computing Crisis: An Assessment Guide (Supersedes 158206)
Source authors U.S. General Accounting Office
Source year 1997
Confidence high
Importance high
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