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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (284)	10/18/1997 1:12:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	of 9818

More than 50 million embedded-system devices worldwide will exhibit year 2000 date anomalies in 1999. *Excerpts: WSJ Interactive* Many enterprises own non-IT equipment, such as process control or monitoring systems, that is both mission-critical and date-aware, and that may contain year 2000 errors. Although the risk of failure is low, the consequences of failure may be very serious..... ---- The average car contains 14 microcontrollers, and some include more than 45. ---- Failures in the following embedded systems, for example, would be unacceptable: - Factory printing and packaging machinery. The law requires expiration dates to be printed on food products in many countries. - Traffic lights. Failure could cause accidents. - Military systems. Weaponry might not operate correctly. - Monitoring equipment. Enterprises such as nuclear power stations may be legally required to log measurements. update2.wsj.com WSJ Interactive 12 March 1997

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