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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (2692)	10/12/1998 8:15:00 PM
From: scott ross	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

What a load of crap. The Y2K/embedded systems issue is a non-issue. The latest figures indicate that 3 out of every 100,000 devices may have a Y2K issue. That figure probably comes close to the number of devices that fail every month for miscellaneous reasons. After ten years of experience in firmware (CNCs, PLCs, motion controllers, etc.), I have never seen a Y2K issue in ROM. The only timestamps that these devices care about are ticks. Let's talk about the real issues: password expiry, certificate expiry, security system expiry, etc. From my research, _those_ are the real problems. Cheers.