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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (563)	11/28/1997 3:43:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) of 9818

ESTIMATED: 80% OF INSTALLED PC'S NATIONWIDE ARE NONCOMPLIANT The problem is much bigger than most people realize.' ... In sheer numbers, it could be a bigger problem than the mainframe environment ============================================================= - Manufactured before 1996 most at risk - Most 486-based and below, are not Y2K compliant - Some Pentium-based PC's not Y2K compliant - Some as current as 166 MHz Pentium chips not Y2K compliant - Some 200 MHz Pentium PCs not Y2K compliant - Noncompliant BIOS chips are still in some current production runs ============================================================= Recent test at NASA revealed that most PCs cannot properly process y2k dates. techstocks.com *600 NEW* Nuclear Regulatory Commission PC's Fail Y2K Dallas Semiconductor readily admits that the real-time clocks used in the NRC PCs are NOT compliant. The company has been manufacturing chips with and without a ''century counter'' that provides Year 2000 compliance, said Jim Lott, senior product manager for Dallas Semiconductor's timekeeping group - The noncompliant clock, which cost 60 cents less per chip .... makes a big difference to volume manufacturers when they buy components. techstocks.com Of 26 PCs and laptops in Dixons, Harrods, JohnLewis, PC World and Tempo ...... 23, or 88% of the machines contained cheap and outmoded real-time clocks** that will NOT recognise the new century. Message 2829253 Even though millennium-compliant clocks have been available since 1992 .... they haven't necessarly been used! Start here to find out if you have the right time: rightime.com *BUT ... THAT STILL* MIGHT NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM ....... ================================================================ Newest phenoma discovered in August '97: TIME DILATION "Nobody thought seconds would start happening at the wrong speed." "We all expected computers to have the wrong date, but who expected time to start running at the wrong speed?** Had anyone in the world predicted some RTCs would suffer time dilation?" Message 2829408

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