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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem
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To: John Mansfield who wrote (449)6/7/1998 3:20:00 PM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (1) of 618
 
'You will recall Ralph Syzgenda's comments (CIO of GM) that the embedded
systems problem in GM plants was a catastrophe? Now Rolls Royce is
saying exactly the opposite.

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Rolls-Royce told shareholders at its annual general
meeting last week that the threat of millennium bugs on
Britain factory floors is "a myth"........

Robbins dismissed claims that manufacturers faced an
uphill task tracing and correcting millennium problems in
embedded systems, or so called 'black box' controllers.

"It's completely untrue. The problem is not with the
machines, it is with the shop floor systems," he said.
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I think what the above means is that somebody must've claimed that Rolls
would have to trace every single circuit of every single chip on its
shop floors. Rolls then explained that, no, that is not necessary - the
problems reside in the embedded systems, not the shop floor chips.

Is this a correct interpretation of what he said?

But he says much more than that in the article. He uses debunker
terminology like "myth" and seems to brush aside the whole problem as
miniscule. That's doing more than defining the location of the problems
- system level vs. chip or machine level. Is it reasonable to say that
he is wrong in his assessment?

If you think he's correct, then why is he saying the exact opposite of
Ralph Syzgenda? - pl

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Subject: Rolls Royce disputes GM on embedded systems problem
From: paul leblanc <pleblan9@pop3x.idt.net>
Date: 1998/06/04
Message-ID: <3576C843.575B@pop3x.idt.net>
Newsgroups: comp.software.year-2000
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