Was there much of a response to the opinion change of Dave Hall (as cited in this newspaper article)? Moreover, was his reputation as an "embeddeds expert" widely accepted in the Y2k community?

http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/0725met100y2kprepare.htm

Does anyone have any other experts on this subject and links to their best guesstimate with regards to the potential problem?

-- atg (avg_texas_guy@excite.com), August 10, 1999

Answers

Go to Gary North's site, he has well over 100 articles written on embedded chips. He has an excellent resource site.

http://www.garynorth.com/y2k/results_Noncompliant_chips

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In the archives under "Miscellaenous," there's a thread called "Tested Over 1,000 Chips - All Were Compliant."

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg-id=0001m5

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atg,

It's old news that the embedded chip/embedded system problem isn't as big as originally estimated. I've been hearing that since at least the end of last year. The problem was and still is that in a complex system, even just one failure could have major consequences.

A recent thread that's loaded with comments and links about embeddeds can be found at:

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001A1t

"Embedded Chips - embedded systems"

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), August 10, 1999.