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To: jhild who wrote (1384)	8/8/1998 6:02:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) of 2770

Listen lets just you get a company technical representative to tell us how the chip will interface with programs that do date calculations. It does not fit with what industry experts tell is the problem.. masses of code that will require basic rewriting and OS's that will overflow their time counting registers. In some case OS cannot overcome the problem of restarting after register overflow and reset of system date.. it just crashes.. and all calculated times are in error if it does not crash.. Date interception is not the answer ... you need to calculate time accurately and near indefinitely.. If your board were on a unix computer and it is not necessary there... it would have to intercept all calls to chron, the real multi tasking process switcher.. and send back new time data.. to programs that had no capability to handle the differing formats..and no idea what to do with the new information.. in essence you take over real time task switching at the OS level.. any way the programs themselves calculate the results of dates.. your board cannot say to them.." oh I know the answer you want.. here it is.." they have no way to accept the interception of results.. Year 2000 is a program and database problem. You cannot cure that with OS patches. If you want to do a search and destroy on me then go ahead. It fits the pattern of many slimy enterprises that infest the mining issues that I have taken to task in the past for false and misleading claims. It is typical that people with no back up and no answers take and ad hominem approach. With no product an empty warehouse you would have to hide behind insult and slander E. Charters echarter@vianet.on.ca The Canadian Mining Newsletter

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