Re: Can you say "World War III?"(You guys are wrong)

[mcrump@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Ok, it's at the risk of making this an OS war and
 it is a little dated but don't forget what happened
in 1998 with the USS Yorktown............

<snipped from ZDNET>
                                                      
 <Let me lay it out for you. The Windows operating    
 <systems don't work all that well. Yes, I mean all   
 <versions of Windows--including NT 4.0. Don't        
 believe <me? Ask the USS Yorktown's sailors.         
                                                      
                                                      
 <Yorktown, an Aegis missile cruiser--the most        
 <technically advanced surface ships in the US        
 Navy--was <off the Virginia shore on maneuvers last  
 fall when for <almost three hours it went dead in    
 the water. What <happened? A single bad entry of     
 zero in a database <program led to a catastrophic NT 
 crash that left large <parts of Yorktown's           
 Engineering Control System <Equipment and Integrated 
 Bridge Systems network <dead, along with the ship's  
 advanced propulsion <system.                         
                                                      
                                                      
 <end snip>                                           
                                                      
                                                      
 Here was an example of a non-AS/400's opinion of     
 NT.........                                          
                                                      
                                                      
 Here is the original article from Government         
 news......                                           
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
 http://www.gcn.com/archives/gcn/1998/july13/cov2.htm 
                                                      








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