Only Part 1 of 4 is OK so far

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There are four areas of y2k computer impact: PHYSICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS, PRIMARY PRODUCTION SYSTEMS OF ON-LINE TRANSACTING, SUPPORT SYSTEMS, and ADMINISTRATIVE AND ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS.

Physical control systems have less software, are easier to fix, and have lots of management attention and investment. We never thought they would be a real problem

Primary production systems have less redundancy, and slightly biger windows that real time physical controls, errors are harder to track down, but these systems also have lots of management attention, and investment since they are the essetnials for the business operation.

Support systems have much wider ranges, are not generally stress tested, nor do they have much redundency, BUT they are pretty easily understood, and remdiation for errors is pretty quick.

Administrative and Accounting systems are almost all software and have decades of extensions, and modifications. There are extremely complex . Errors are difficult to detect in the first place, hard to locate, and difficult to fix safely. They are very large and very interconnected. They are poorly maintained, and have little redundency. They receive little management attention.

We've already made it through the physical control systems part OK. Primary production systems are being impacted now and in the next two weeks, along with their support systems.

We won't know if the accounting systems are functional for at least 3-6 weeks, and maybe not for months.

Since the accounting systems are the ones everyone is most worried about, we aren't even remotely out of

-- zarathustra (zarathu@epix.net), January 03, 2000

Answers

z,

If people would thoroughly read IEEE essay they would discover that what has happened is EXACTLY what was forcast by the Y2K chair in his essay-----EXACTLY

The rollover Fallacy was just that and the subliminal programming of society for the, what he called the 5% of the problem that was easiest to fix.

But unfortunately the other 95% that is the hardest to fix in the system of systems where you are in the gaps and have to basically guess where the problems are and test and check and test and check etc.

He went into great detail regarding banks!!

So it is not hard to understand Societies CURRENT relief with the rollover since that is how they have been programmed by the media.

-- D........ (dciinc@aol.com), January 03, 2000.


People are coming to work, finding computer problems and selling stocks and bonds. Look at the markets today to see what is really happening.

-- george cunningham (george1@aol.com), January 03, 2000.

I think this is pretty silly, for two reasons:

--5% of the problems on 01/01/00 may be accurate. BUT--we should have started seeing problems related to accounting software, etc., BEFORE the new year, not after. The Fed and every state government has been running in FY '00 for months now. The massive systemic problems have not materialized.

--Even if we've seen only 5% of the problems, to date, cumulatively...SO WHAT? Multiply the number of problems we've observed by 20. Oooooh, I'm shaking now. Multiply them by a hundred. Two hundred. Maybe Y2K would start to register then. Not before. So, unless the actual number is closer to 0.5% than 5%, there's just not much to worry about.

-- Craig Bryant (ckbryant@mindspring.com), January 03, 2000.


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