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To: rudedog who wrote (45548)	5/31/1998 11:29:00 AM
From: Meathead	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

The answer... Dell has run many of the available programs which test for Year 2000 compliance and was surprised when some failures occurred. Upon investigation, it was learned that some tests bypass the BIOS and go directly to the RTC CMOS area to retrieve the system date. Dell's opinion is that this does not reflect reality, that is why Dell's Year 2000 hardware resolution, like most PC vendors, is a BIOS adjustment. Virtually all Operating Systems and applications run on a PC will retrieve the system date through the BIOS. Dell engineers have run literally thousands of applications and OS's and found only one that bypasses the BIOS for the system date - the QNX operating system. QNX has long since resolved this issue in their operating system. Year 2000 compliance tests which bypass the BIOS will frequently not work on PS/2 systems, Acorn systems, and alternate RTC designs. Hope this helps. MEATHEAD