22 Jun
2001
22 Jun
'01
12:59 p.m.
Sellam Ismail wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Jeff Hellige wrote:
CONTROL battleships? Or be on board in a network where someone needs to type up a
Word or Excel file? There is a difference. At NASA I know of no Win NT CONTROL
aspect of a satellite. The damn things run Mil-Std 1750A architectures. And I know
that the updated the HST with a rad-hardened 486 replaced the older rad-hardened
286.
I will find out what OS (low-level) actually CONTROLs it. Probably a Unix variant.
Eric
I'll have to see if I still have that
NEETS module here. I
don't remember the section on the Harris systems though. I know some
of the oilers were still using them since the ship wasn't large enough
to accomodate the Honeywell systems. The last time I actually worked
on one was in '93. Even the Honeywell's are being replaced by micro's
running Unix though.
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
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