On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 at 10:17am, Lux, James P wrote
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joshua Baker-LePain
Note that Leif mentioned medical equipment with embedded
Windows systems.
And he's right -- you're not allowed to touch the software
build on those without getting the new build approved by the
FDA (at least, not if you want to use said equipment on real
live patients). And those machines are generally networked
so that the data (images, e.g.) can be uploaded. It is very,
very scary. Why anyone ever made the decision to run medical
equipment on Windows (over the screams of the engineering
team) is utterly beyond me.
Not to be a MS fanboy, but it should also be recognized that Windows
Embedded is a different animal than consumer Windows. Or, more properly,
Windows Embedded CAN be made a different animal. It's up to the system
I should have clarified that when I said "embedded" above I didn't mean
"Embedded". The equipment I was obliquely referring to was running bog
standard XP. *shudder*
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF
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