"The Natural Philosopher" <a@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:1211032348.5441.0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hadron wrote:
>> "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****.
>
> Sounds pretty accurate to me, having worked on just such teams in the
> past.
Maybe Hadron never worked on a well run, smooth, reliable, well performing
large scale software development project that was also on budget and on
time. Many have not had this experience.
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