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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (4694)	3/15/1999 9:51:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	of 9818

Awareness Is Helping Cool the Y2K Fever Friday, March 12, 1999 latimes.com snip: >>>>Alistair Stewart, a senior advisor for Giga on embedded systems , said that only about 3% of chips have been found to have minor problems, typically requiring resetting the date or restarting a device. The percentage of chips that experience outright failures is "so small as to be statistically insignificant," he said.<<< Petroleum Industry: Y2K Bug Won't Bite Into Fuel Flow February 19, 1999 ens.lycos.com snip: >>One discovery that emerged from the survey is that embedded chips do not pose a significant problem for the oil and gas industries, said Ron Quiggins , director, Year 2000 Program, Shell Services Corporation and chairman of the American Petroleum Institute Year 2000 Task Force. "We're not finding the embedded chip failures that we thought we had," he said.<<<

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