From: leslie AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Jerry Leslie) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: To those of you who use NT/2000, we salute you Date: 20 Dec 2000 14:48:46 GMT Organization: None Lines: 37 Message-ID: <91qgse$gnl$3@joe.rice.edu> References: <3B%_5.7848$IY2 DOT 545636 AT typhoon DOT mn DOT mediaone DOT net> <91lo3k$6t2$1 AT neptunium DOT btinternet DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: clio.rice.edu X-Trace: joe.rice.edu 977323726 17141 128.42.105.3 (20 Dec 2000 14:48:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT rice DOT edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Dec 2000 14:48:46 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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.