From:	leslie AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Jerry Leslie)
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Subject:	Re: To those of you who use NT/2000, we salute you
Date:	20 Dec 2000 14:48:46 GMT
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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.

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