"Ivan Marsh" <ivanmarsh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:pan.2008.05.16.18.37.28.500559@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Fri, 16 May 2008 10:56:01 -0700, -hh wrote:
>
>> "dennis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <den...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>> ... no mention of vista gives you several choices including: linux,
>>> Mac, XP, 98, 95, CE, pSOS, DOS, and loads of others. Choose the best
>>> one for the application and everything will be fine.
>>
>> IIRC, the USN had been using NT on some of their ****ps a couple of
years
>> ago.
>>
>> Here's some links:
>>
>> <http://www.gcn.com/print/17_17/33727-1.html>
>>
>> <http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1998/07/13987>
>>
>> <http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/18007/windows-nt-sinks-navy-
>> ****p.html>
>>
>> These are all pretty dated; not sure if there's more current info
online
>> or not.
>
> Sorry... but the Yorktown meltdown had to do with a divide by zero error
> in the engine power interface when the operator entered zero into a data
> input field which was the fault of the person who programmed the control
> software and had nothing to do with the operating system.
>
> *This should in no way be misconstrued as an endorsement of windows. I
> would not knowingly trust my life to a Microsoft OS.*
It still highlights the general poor quality of MS-Windows programming
methodologies spilling into serious software development cycles and
today's
design techniques. While software has become more complex, it is also
true
the teams developing it are much larger, better funded and generally less
disciplined. We somehow think a business NET ad-hoc programmer makes a
embedded systems programmer, and that is a fallacy for greed.
Quite frankly, it scares me to think MS-Windows is in command and control
of
some war****ps, or even anything else. I wouldn't even board a cruise ****p
if I thought it needed MS-Windows to make it go. Leave MS-Windows in the
pursers office, or the cocktail lounge. But not on the trim, power,
navigation -- sorry -- just don't trust the crap.
But people have already died because of MS-Windows insecurity and it isn't
widely acknowledged. Take the big NE power outage a couple of years ago.
At first, US said Canada did it, then Canada said the US did it. When in
fact it was some Microsoft Windows virus on a SCADA control network making
response so pitiful the power grid popped off line. Those dependant on
electricity, say a home medical device of some sort, some died.
Cite:
http://www.news.com/2100-1011_3-5063997.html
Yet we blindly fall into the pit of MS-Windows is good everywhere. When
it
is clearly, as in Vista's case, and unpredictable over complex piece of
bloatware not fit for use anywhere except a wet fanboys dreams.
We need to get back to basics in this business and skip the caffeinated
hype
turkey talk.
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