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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (4694)	3/15/1999 9:51:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 9818

Awareness Is Helping Cool the Y2K Fever Friday, March 12, 1999 latimes.com snip: >>>>Alistair Stewart, a senior advisor for Giga on embedded systems , said that only about 3% of chips have been found to have minor problems, typically requiring resetting the date or restarting a device. The percentage of chips that experience outright failures is "so small as to be statistically insignificant," he said.<<< Petroleum Industry: Y2K Bug Won't Bite Into Fuel Flow February 19, 1999 ens.lycos.com snip: >>One discovery that emerged from the survey is that embedded chips do not pose a significant problem for the oil and gas industries, said Ron Quiggins , director, Year 2000 Program, Shell Services Corporation and chairman of the American Petroleum Institute Year 2000 Task Force. "We're not finding the embedded chip failures that we thought we had," he said.<<<

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (4694)	3/15/1999 10:10:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 9818

CHEEKY KID: Read my lips ... Embedded S-Y-S-T-E-M-S is where the big problem is. Not C-H-I-P-S. Don't you READ anything??? Do you know what the difference is between the two?? I've posted explanations often enough. FROM MY PREVIOUS POST TO CHEEKY LOL - Ron Quiggins was my lunch partner at a Y2K Process Control conference in Houston March '98. Notice he used the words "embedded CHIPS" and not "embedded SYSTEMS". He's totally accurate with THAT statement. He and I had a very interesting conversation about "embedded SYSTEMS" assessment, remediation, and testing on oil rigs. Particularly the North Sea rigs. There are numerous safety issues involved with testing and remediating while rig is operational. Best to do when a rig and pipeline are taken down. "Then you don't have to worry about safety. You only have to worry about money." FOR THOSE THAT DON'T KNOW DIFFERENCE: A typical oil rig has approx 100-150 embedded SYSTEMS. Within these systems are approx 10,000 embedded chips. FOR THOSE WHO WANT MORE TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Message 3323138 Cheryl