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To: Christine Traut who wrote (9952)	3/10/1998 5:49:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

Christine - I believe that 'bad bios' chips in PCs can be fixed with software. Correct. Getting around the BIOS issue is a piece of cake. The danger point with PCs (as in ALL computers, including Macintosh) is what the applications do with the date once it's fetched from the system clock. It only takes a few instructions to either clip the century digits off or to slam a '19' onto a date. For some unfathomable 'reason' virtually all the attention directed at PCs has revolved around the BIOS issue... which is largely a red herring. - David