23 Jun
2001
23 Jun
'01
10:48 a.m.
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Jeff Hellige wrote:
Straying a bit off topic, can someone explain why the Navy, a branch of
the US military, requiring rock solid, uncompromising stability in the
systems that control their vessels, in their infinite procedural and
compliance wisdom, would choose Windows NT to control battleships?
Or was that just a sick joke? I know it wasn't, but I'd like to believe
it was ;)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
The NT wasn't the problem. It was their database app not handling a
mistake -- a 0 input into a field that it didn't validate
led to a divide by zero error their app didn't handle.
The NT was not the problem. (I'd like to blame MS -- but this one's a
standard military contract software house screw up... probably).
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