Re: Y2K
Wall street is worried about Y2K, but not nearly as much now that the big
financial firms and public markets have completed most of their hardware and
software certification programs. Any reasonable person with even a little
computer knowledge should be able to understand the vast problem of Y2K related
issues.
Consider the lowly pumpkin water timer. Electric timers use what we call
embedded controls. These are small electronic chips which in this case keep
track of time. While our cheap water timers may not be year sensitive many
industrial, military and medical devices are, even if their outward appearance
does not use the year. The chips internal code processes a full complement clock
which includes 24 hour 7 day week, month and years registers. Many manufacturers
of devices using these chips choose to only read the signals off the 24 hour
timing loop while the chip continues reading and writing to all registers. Any
error in the coding of the chips micro code may cause the chip to malfunction
when the year rolls to 0 or 2000. The problem of course is determining where all
of these chip are. And there are millions and millions of them.
And embedded controls are just a small part of Y2K.
Say, Mr. Nepereny, is your CurcuBYTE software going to be able to handle the
record pumpkin I'm dreaming about for 2000? :-)
Greg Schraiber
Machesney Park, IL
Ethan Jervis wrote:
> Y2K is a bunch of crap. It's a scare tactic to make people nervous and spend
> there money on foolish things. This has already been proven. Let's see. Do
> you see wallstreet worried about Y2K? No you don't. Why?
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