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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (317)	10/24/1997 12:24:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) of 9818

WHY EMBEDDED CHIPS ARE THE ENEMY WITHIN "Heavy-duty users of embedded systems such as the manufacturing and process industries are in for a tough time: "You can't just turn off a steel plant" "Take care that the clock, once rolled forward to 2000, is not stuck there for good, as happened to one health service manager testing some hospital equipment for compliance." "If you think we've got a resource problem with the IT systems, when it comes to embedded systems, you ain't seen nothing yet! ... There's going to be a very great shortage of real-time engineers" "The response from most embedded systems suppliers to the year 2000 problem is "absolutely dreadful" "Many embedded systems suppliers use third-party components, which have to be checked for compliance - as does, probably, EACH individual system. As SmithKline Beecham has already discovered, you can have two identical machines and find one is compliant and the other is not." exchange2000.com

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