10 Jun
2009
10 Jun
'09
2:36 p.m.
The US Navy at one point was switching from Unix to
Windows. ?They had major
problems with this on the USS Yorktown, and had to tow it back to port. ?I
don't know whether they've completed the switch.
That wiki entry seems a little biased, doesn't it?
ALL ships in the US Navy have an incredible amount of redundancy, and
there are always ways to go two or three technology generations back
to get things back up in running. The idea that somehow this network
was such a single point of failure to the point that the ship was dead
in the water just STINKS of being urban legend. Did something fail?
Sure - this was a test bed, and these things are supposed to fail. And
when they fail, the engineers scour over the results and do not get
into emergency mode. It already seems like the whole towing claim is
dubious at best. A
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Will