Maz stared at him. George sighed and continued. “We found a Millennium bug in the VUI date link.”
Maz shook his head. “The 5.2 Millennium date routines have been on the market for four years. A 5.2 bug would have shown by now, in calculations projecting past 1999. We never touched 5.2 date code after the fix. When we designed 7.0, we simply called the 5.2 routines, because we knew they were clean.”
George nodded. “Yeah, but 7.0 included the VUI. The first thing the VUI does is call a 7.0 module called ‘SceneSet’ to get the system date. SceneSet then links to WorldSource to set the VR scenario, pulling backgrounds, agent costumes, era detail, etc., all based on the year in the system date.”
“Which should be correct from 5.2 fixes,” Maz repeated.
George sighed. “Version 5.2 changed the s
