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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem
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To: John Mansfield who wrote (449)6/1/1998 9:52:00 PM
From: foobert  Read Replies (1) of 618
 
Start with 25 billion embedded chips

Subtract total number of digital clocks, wristwatches, etc.

Of the remaining chips, subtract the number that have no date functionality.

We now have work to do to determine if the remaining chips do any date calculations involving a year value. (Many embedded chips track day of week only: they cycle through days from Sunday to Saturday, and reset to Sunday again)

These remaining chips become the focus of the embedded chip problem.

That should cut the problem down somewhat.

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