Re: Windows Vista is slowing the Navy down ??

"Canuck57" <dave-no_spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> "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.

What a load of uninformed bull****.