Re: [NTLK] [semi-OT] The US Military is DOOMED! (article about a WinCE device...)

From: Eric L. Strobel (fyzycyst_at_comcast.net)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 12:18:42 EST


at the temporal coordinates: 3/8/02 11:55 AM, the entity known as
rminton_at_commscope.com at rminton_at_commscope.com conveyed the following:

>
>>> messaging in a robust "super-palmtop" controlled by
>> Microsoft's Windows
>>> CE
>>> operating system."
>
> The most consistent thing I have ever seen about Windows is its ability to
> declare that an application has committed an "illegal operation" when Window's
> piss poor memory management is the underlying cause.
>

Actually, the first thing I thought of when I read that article was that
item from a couple of years ago where the US Navy was trying to automate a
bunch of systems on an Aegis cruiser -- using NT. Reportedly, the ship
ended up crippled and nearly dead in the water for a while.

- Eric.

-- 

Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)

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