11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
10:47 a.m.
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I was a little surprised that they managed to get such an old version
running on modern hardware.
Zane
Even worse than hospital databases is the
critical monitoring
equipment running on Windows. When our first child was born the
fetal monitor crashed. It was running Windows NT, and guess who had
to get it back up and running when none of the Hospital staff could.
I was not amused. I was even less amused by how ancient of a version
of the OS they had running on a very modern Dell box.
You have our sincerest sympathies.
The medical profession suffers frrom a severe lack of understanding about
current microcomputer tehnology.
and it would still be INAPPROPRIATE for any of us to mention
"Dude, you're getting a Dell!"