"Canuck57" <dave-no_spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> "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.
And here we see the thread twist.
Please go back and reread what is being discussed.
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