On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:23 AM, <mno...@embedded-unlimited.com> wrote: > "US vessel, the Yorktown" .."The entire network of Windows NT machines > crashed. The Navy claims the ship was dead in the water for about three > hours;"
There's not much real information on this, but supposedly the problem was in userland code: A divide by zero error crashed the database that supported the ship systems. Doesn't sound like an OS issue. Franky, I wouldn't want to trust my life to anything running on any general-purpose OS or software, be it Linux, Unix, Microsoft, Plan 9, whatever. I'd like something with known, documented, well-understood, finite, deterministic states and transitions, please. Preferably implemented in discrete controls with manual alternatives. I think it was the estimable Bill Sconce who had a shirt that summed it up nicely: "As a programmer, I find your faith in computers amusing." -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
