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To: John Mansfield who wrote (155)	3/8/1998 6:01:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) of 618

'If only a few million of them fail, out of the billions in use....' 'Most of them don't care about the date. Probably fewer than 1%. Perhaps as few as 0.1%. However, there are billions and billions of them in use around the world, in every critical capacity you can think of -- power plants, oil refineries, traffic systems, planes, trains and automobiles, medical equipment; and usually in awkward places where they are hard to get at and test. If only a few million of them fail, out of the billions in use, there is a statistical likelihood near 100% that some of those failures will take out critical systems. We just don't know which ones, or where they are, or what will happen when a valve in a dam swings open and won't close, or a power distribution line switch in New York City decides it's been in operation too long and shuts down, or a medical device attached to a loved one sliently stops dripping a critical drug. Chip Aspnes' ______________________ Subject: Re: Embedded controller failure? From: Chip Aspnes Date: 1998/03/07 Message-ID: <3501BC41.E4FD8166@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.software.year-2000

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