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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RagTimeBand who wrote (506)	7/10/1998 2:15:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 618

'We are about to run a Y2K drill. To prepare for the drill, the instructor begins with an inventory of the equipment. How many embedded functions are there, and how many of them have been found to be date sensitive? If no data is available on date sensitivity, assume 25%. Now, how many of the date sensitive ones still have unfixed Y2K problems? Assume a percentage P. Say there are 100 date sensitive functions, and we assume 15% are not yet fixed. Then we expect 15 of them to fail. To run the drill, the instructor randomly selects 15 of the 100 functions, and forces them to malfunction. The cockpit (or power plant control room) crew has to deal with the malfunctions. The actions they take depend on the details of the failed systems. In general, the choices are to operate the failed function manually, or to bypass the function, or to do without its services. ... y2ktimebomb.com