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Date:      Fri, 7 Sep 2001 07:13:48 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
To:        David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NASA's Operating System?
Message-ID:  <20010907071348.A1167@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <200109070243.f872htw89354@grumpy.dyndns.org>; from dkelly@hiwaay.net on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:43:55PM -0500
References:  <charon@labs.gr> <200109070243.f872htw89354@grumpy.dyndns.org>

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From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
Subject: Re: NASA's Operating System?
Date: Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:43:55PM -0500

> 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."

This is what I was looking for, yes.  I'll read the article again,
because it left me with an impression that 'it was all NT's fault'.

Just about time I got some extra sleep, I guess.
Thanks for looking this up...

-giorgos


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