Date: 9 Sep 2001 00:19:50 MDT From: J S <spl1t_h0r1z0n@usa.net> To: Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com>, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Re: NASA's Operating System?] Message-ID: <20010909061950.24928.qmail@nwcst282.netaddress.usa.net>
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wow, dual pentium pros running NT, talk about a "modern" navy. i think t= hey should go buy some TI-92's, or HP-48/49's and run their smart ships with = them. better math capabilities (no crashing when you divide by 0), and more ga= mes than with NT. or they could really go for the multifunction high perform= ance machine, and get a palmVIIx, it even has wireless capabilities, or maybe = the hp journada. comforting thought that the american navy is spending their money on unst= able, outdated hardware and software. i'll sleep better tonight knowing i am protected by the best. joshua Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com> wrote: > Thursday, September 06, 2001, 10:43:55 PM, David Kelly wrote: > = > DK> 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 locatin= g > >> the URL again, but if I find it, it'll be posted here :-P > = > DK> First hit Yahoo! turned up on "+navy +nt +ship +towed" > DK> http://www.info-sec.com/OSsec/OSsec_080498g_j.shtml > = > DK> In all fairness to NT the failure was in the Navy's software and no= t > DK> Microsoft's. Then again some claim an advantage of Windows is the > DK> ability to use personnel of lower skills. And some believe "garbage= in, > DK> garbage out." > = > = > Did anyone read this part? > = > ------ > But "the Yorktown's failure in September 1997 was not as simple as > reported," DiGiorgio said. > = > "If you understand computers, you know that a computer normally is > immune to the character of the data it processes," he wrote in the > June U.S. Naval Institute's Proceedings Magazine. "Your $2.95 > calculator, for example, gives you a zero when you try to divide a > number by zero, and does not stop executing the next set of > instructions. It seems that the computers on the Yorktown were not > designed to tolerate such a simple failure." > ------ > Maybe I have just totally missed something, but none of my calculators > or programs will 'skip' over a divide by zero.... > = > -- = > -Neill > freebsd@nc.rr.com > = > = > = > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Joshua Smith, CCNA Data Center Technian USA.NET joshua.smith@corp.usa.net "Walk with me through the Universe, And along the way see how all of us are Connected. Feast the eyes of your Soul, On the Love that abounds. In all places at once, seemingly endless, Like your own existence." - Stephen Hawking - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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