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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (1107)	1/14/1999 2:46:00 PM
From: Contra Guy	Respond to of 1361

I found this paragraph in the article to be particularly interesting: "At nuclear power plants, no Y2K problem has been found that would prevent any safety system from shutting down a plant in an emergency," said Gent. Note that Gent is not saying that all of the problems were fixed, he is saying that no problems of this type ever existed in the first place. This is a recurring pattern with manufacturing entities that have completed their Y2K compliance testing. It is looking more and more that the whole "embedded systems" angle of Y2K is a gigantic and costly red herring. Has anyone found a single engineer who claims to have burned calendar date logic into the PROM? I haven't.