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From: "Jim Roland" <jroland@roland.net>
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Subject: Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 20:19:07 -0500
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----- Original Message -----
From: "William T Wilson" <fluffy@snurgle.org>
To: "Ben Ford" <ben@kalifornia.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!


> 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 :}

>From what I've heard, NASA relies heavily on modified Linux.

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