Subj : Re: Spitfire's Y2k25 bug
To   : xbit
From : Dan Cross
Date : Sat Jan 04 2025 07:38:26

On 02 Jan 2025 at 12:42p, xbit pondered and said...
 
 xb> Sadly, looks like Spitfire is RIP forever. On the morning of 1-1-2025 I
 xb> noticed that all SF nodes would no longer boot as it requests to set the
 xb> system date and time. 
 xb> 
 xb> Looking into putting it on a VM w/ the date set to 2014 but perhaps its
 xb> just time to say goodbye.
 xb> 
 xb> Take care all and Happy New Year.

That's really sad.  I know that Mike Woltz passed away in 2022; it's
a shame that the source code to Spitfire wasn't released as open source
before that.  Does anyone know how to get in touch with his estate?
Perhaps they'd be willing to transfer the code somewhere and someone
could patch it.  For that matter, maybe the binary could be patched.

I ran Spitfire back in the early 90's.  I've always had a soft spot
for it in my heart.

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