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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (54)8/3/1997 8:03:00 PM
From: Bill Fischofer   of 9818
 
Re: Embedded Systems

Of all the scaremongering over Y2K, the embedded systems stuff seems the most far-fetched. I spent a lot of time yesterday wading through garynorth.com without finding a single example of a known embedded system problem which could be specifically quantified as to its impact and difficulty of circumvention.

For example, one hears "horror stories" of how machinery will shut itself down because it's internal processors suddenly decide it's 99 years overdue for maintenance. Simple solution: At midnight on 1/1/00 simply cycle these machines and tell them that they've just been serviced. Anticipating everything that might possibly go wrong is undoubtedly a path to madness, but common-sense workarounds to actual problems as they occur seems to me to be the way residual glitches and annoyances will be handled.

We're now 28 months away from the "big '00". Does anyone have an example of a known embedded systems problem that will cause a major snafu?
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