> > Back to you Nic. How about tracking this one down. I remember
> Richard Vowles
> telling us this one first, so he may know where the story came from. My
> recollection is that the shock of the gun firing caused the computers to
> reboot (no mention of EMP), and that the computer was used for targetting,
> and thermal image recognition, etc, hence the DB. Still, who knows. The
> original story had MS SQL Server as the Army's original choice, and
> Interbase being brought in to replace it because SQL Server (in
> those days)
> took several minutes to reboot.
Sounds about right - I thought there was something about EMP in there tho.
I can't, however, find the article on the web site, being its been
'rewritten', and most of the usefull content is gone.
Bugger.
Anyway, I'll keep having a look around and see what I can find.
N
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