Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 21:10:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 21:09:54 -0400 Received: from c266492-a.lakwod1.co.home.com ([24.1.8.253]:3854 "EHLO benatar.snurgle.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 21:09:45 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 21:09:32 -0400 (EDT) From: William T Wilson To: Ben Ford cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU! In-Reply-To: <3B3FB7F5.6080008@kalifornia.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Ben Ford wrote: > This seems to be meant as a joke, but I don't think it's all that unlikely. > > I seem to recall that MS products cannot be used in aircraft control > rooms for this reason. It's not just MS. Aircraft control rooms (as well as nuclear power plants, spacecraft mission control, etc.) require special certified software to be used - it's not simply that they avoid MS, they avoid all software that hasn't been blessed. My understanding is that astronauts going up on the shuttle take turns bringing a laptop computer so they have actual computing power available to them. The shuttle computer is not adequate for many tasks because it is something like 30 years old, but that's what they use because it is certified. So somebody has to bring along a non-certified system in their "personal effects" allowance to get real work done :} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/