From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 6 19:44:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-57-209.knology.net [24.214.57.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F57C37B401 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 19:44:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f872htw89354; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 21:43:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200109070243.f872htw89354@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: NASA's Operating System? In-reply-to: Message from Giorgos Keramidas of "Fri, 07 Sep 2001 04:12:50 +0300." <20010907041249.C8700@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 21:43:55 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Giorgos Keramidas writes: > > This is a reference to the story I had read somewhere about US Navy > migrating ship-control systems to NT. I seem to have failed locating > the URL again, but if I find it, it'll be posted here :-P First hit Yahoo! turned up on "+navy +nt +ship +towed" http://www.info-sec.com/OSsec/OSsec_080498g_j.shtml In all fairness to NT the failure was in the Navy's software and not Microsoft's. Then again some claim an advantage of Windows is the ability to use personnel of lower skills. And some believe "garbage in, garbage out." -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message