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To: Mighty_Mezz who wrote (193)	9/12/1997 10:15:00 PM
From: Jeff Redman	of 9818

Embedded Systems So much for the Embedded systems hype, the following is on CNET, from a link in an earlier posting. I used to work for Consumers Power, a large electric & gas utility in Michigan. Anyone who has not seen the y2k hype myths should go to this link, there is a lot of good information there: cnet.com Pacific Gas & Electric is a major California power supplier that has been working on the millennium bug since 1995; the utility expects to be ready with its fix by the end of 1998. If the bug we left untouched, problems might occur with billing systems, regulatory compliance schedules, and maintenance schedules, but nobody from the utility expects Y2K to have any effect on the distribution of power. "To try and tie the flow of power into the year 2000 effort is pure speculation," says Leonard Anderson, a spokesperson who has worked closely with the utility's Y2K team. "Most power is routed manually. Much is being controlled by systems themselves--if equipment on the lines detects an overload, they'll automatically shut down to protect the system."

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