Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/12/20/09:51:32
Tim Nicholson (djgpp_mail AT gizzy DOT co DOT uk) wrote:
: My company had abandoned windows as a viable platform for any software that
: has to be certified as being 'fit for form and function' The totally
: unpredictable nature of the whole Windows family (Including Win 2000) makes
: it impossible to get any form of certification from the bodies that regulate
: our industry (Aerospace).
:
And a lot of us sleep better because it is impossible to gain such
certification.
: Contrary to popular believe, Windows 2000 is extremely unstable and
: could never be used for any form of critical system.
It's a shame the U.S. Navy doesn't believe that:
http://www.gcn.com/vol19_no27/dod/2868-1.html
Navy carrier to run Win 2000
There was a thread posted to the comp.os.qnx & sci.engr.control newsgroups
that started with an article posted by Leif Bloomquist. The subject was:
Major NT Embarrassment
The Message-ID is 37BC31AC DOT BE6A25C2 AT 127 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 1 , and was dated 19 Aug 1999.
The article was about an NT-based control system project that failed.
--Jerry Leslie (my opinions are strictly my own)
P.S. How many of the PHBs/MGMs who force Windows-solutions would be
willing to fly on an airliner with Microsoft-based avionics
software ? If they are willing, it'd be auto-Darwinism at its
finest.
PHB: Pointy Hair Boss , from the "Dilbert" cartoons
MGM: Meeting-Going Moron.
- Raw text -