Year 2000 Wire/Autodesk Products Year 2000 Compliant; Test Results Posted, Users Communicate Through Discussion Group on Web Site.SAN RAFAEL San Rafael (săn rəfĕl`), residential city (1990 pop. 48,404), seat of Marin co., W Calif., a suburb of San Francisco on the northern shore of San Francisco Bay; inc. 1913. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, l997--Autodesk today announced that most of its products, including its flagship AutoCAD(R) Release 14 design software, have completed extensive testing and have been found to accurately show and process dates beyond the Year 2000. Autodesk is one of the few design software companies to test and publish their products' Year 2000 compliance results. The company has posted product testing results on the company's Web site home page at www.autodesk.com or directly at www.autodesk.com/year2000 . The Web page also provides a discussion group that lets Autodesk personnel and Autodesk product users exchange information pertinent to the year 2000 situation. The Year 2000 issue, which could cause confusing century date change problems for all types of software product users, results from the early days of commercial computing, when programmers and database administrators specified dates to be saved in a compact form using two digits each to represent the month, day and year. One common form is "YYMMDD YYMMDD (2-Digit) Year, Month, and Day ," where July 2, 1954 would be expressed as "540702." This usage saved two digits per date when some mainframes had only 64K bytes of main memory, and disks stored only five or ten megabytes. At the time, this logic seemed reasonable, because the year 2000 was far in the future, and the developers believed the programs being created then would be replaced long before that time. Unfortunately, as the years passed, many programs and databases continued to be designed with this old two-digit format. For Year 2000 compliance, Autodesk products rely on the date conversions and calculations, file date/time stamps and stored date formats provided by the host operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . Because most versions of Autodesk products are based upon Microsoft(R) Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. (R) and Windows(R) 95, Windows, and MS-DOS MS-DOS in full Microsoft Disk Operating System Operating system for personal computers. MS-DOS was based on DOS, developed in 1980 by Seattle Computer Products. Microsoft Corp. bought the rights to DOS in 1981, and released MS-DOS with IBM's PC that year. (R), Microsoft operating system's Year 2000 compliance-certified date-handling capabilities are the key to Autodesk product Year 2000 compliance. For further details of date storage and computations within Microsoft operating systems The following is a list of Microsoft operating systems. For the codenames that Microsoft gave their operating systems, see Microsoft codenames. Before Windows
Year 2000-Compliant Autodesk Products The Autodesk products listed below have been extensively tested by Autodesk engineers over the past few months and are expected to be unaffected by the century change to the year 2000 Compliance of other Autodesk products not listed below will be posted on Autodesk's Year 2000 Web page as testing is completed. -0- AutoCAD(R) Release 12, Release 13, Release 14 AutoCAD Data Extension(R) (ADE(R)) 2.0 AutoCAD Release 13 Internet Publishing Kit 1.05 AutoCAD Release 14 Internet Publishing Kit 2.0-76 AutoCAD OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and Release 14 AutoCAD LT(R) 97 AutoCAD LT for Windows(R) 95 AutoCAD Map(R) 2.0 Autodesk MapGuide(TM) Author 2.5 Autodesk MapGuide Browser Plug-in A third-party software product, such as a search toolbar, that is integrated into a Web browser to extend its capabilities. A "helper application" provides similar capabilities to a browser plug-in, but runs as an external application and typically launches another window for viewing. 2.5 Autodesk MapGuide Server 2.5 Autodesk World(TM) 1.0 Autodesk(R) View 1.2 Autodesk View DwgX(TM) 1.2 AutoSketch(R) 2.1 Character Studio(TM) 1.1 Drafix(R) CAD Professional 3.x, 4.x Drafix Quick CAD 3.x, 4.x DWG (filename extension) dwg - The filename extension for Autodesk drawing files. http://faqs.org/faqs/graphics/fileformats-faq/part3/. Unplugged(TM) 1.0, 1.0s, R14 Heidi(R) Development Kit 2.2, 3.0 Hyperwire(TM) 1.0 Mechanical Desktop(R) 1.2 ObjectARX(TM) Autodesk Software Developer's Kit See SDK. (TM) 2.0 and beyond Picture This Home!(TM) Bath Planix(R) Deck 3D 1.0a Planix Exterior Designer 3D 1.00 Planix Home 1.00 Planix Home Architect 3D 2.01 Planix Home Book Bundles 1.00 Planix Home Design Suite 3D 3.00b Planix Home Designer 3D 2.01 Planix Home Planner 2.01 Planix Home Project Estimator 1.00 Planix Landscape 2.0 Planix Office 1.00 Planix Photo Landscape 1.0 Softdesk(R) Pro Landscape 4.0 Softdesk Pro Remodeler 2.01 Softdesk Architectural S8 Softdesk Civil/Survey S8 Softdesk Imaging S8 3D Studio MAX(R) 1.2 3D Studio VIZ(TM) 1.0 WHIP!(TM) Browser Accessory 1.05, 2.0-76 WorkCenter(R) 1.2 WorkCenter for the Web 1.2 -0- About Autodesk Autodesk is the world's leading supplier of PC design software and PC multimedia tools. The company's 2D and 3D products, geographic information systems geographic information system (GIS) Computerized system that relates and displays data collected from a geographic entity in the form of a map. The ability of GIS to overlay existing data with new information and display it in colour on a computer screen is used primarily to , and data management tools are used in many industries for mapping, architectural design This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. , mechanical design, film and video production, video/game development and Web content development. Its Kinetix(R) division is the leader in PC-based 3D modeling and animation software, providing a full range of products for digital media and design professionals. The fourth largest PC software company in the world, Autodesk has three million customers in over 150 countries. Autodesk products are sold through Autodesk Systems Centers, Dealers and Distributors worldwide. For more information on Autodesk, please call 415/507-5000, type GO ADESK on CompuServe, or visit its World Wide Web site at http://www.autodesk.com . Kinetix can be reached by calling 800/879-4233 or through its World Wide Web site at http://www.ktx.com . Autodesk shares are traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol ADSK ADSK Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ stock symbol) . -0- Note to Editors: Autodesk, the Autodesk logo, AutoCAD, AutoCAD Map, AutoCAD Data Extension, AutoCAD LT, AutoSketch, Heidi, Kinetix, Mechanical Desktop, WorkCenter, Softdesk, Planix, Drafix and 3D Studio MAX are registered trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and certain other countries. Autodesk MapGuide, Autodesk World, Autodesk Software Developer's Kit, Autodesk View DwgX, ObjectARX, Whip!, Hyperwire, Character Studio, Picture This Home! and 3D Studio VIZ are trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective holders. CONTACT: Autodesk Barbara J. Brown, 415/507-6093 barbara.brown@autodesk.com |
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