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In patient care systems, we would convince the doctors that didn't want Linux by saying "would you like a blue screen of death to be literal?" -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 6:00 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Fwd: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cybercounterattacksystem(Einstein 3.0) On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:54:33 PDT, Scott Weeks said: > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/USS_Yorktown.jpg > > was rendered unusable by a sh!++y OS? !!! To be fair, designing a system that could be dead in the water if one component bluescreened probably wasn't a wise idea either, and one totally separate from the actual choice of operating system. Even Solaris and AIX crash if sufficiently provoked. But it's no surprise that the same designers who created it with a single point of failure then turned around and implemented the critical component with likely-to-fail thechnology. "Windows NT 4.0 - the choice of unclued systems designers everywhere" :)
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