MicroVAX 3100 booting... (now WinNT shutdown)

From: kees.stravers_at_iae.nl <(kees.stravers_at_iae.nl)>
Date: Thu Apr 26 17:41:52 2001

On 2001-04-26 classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org said to kees.stravers_at_iae.nl
>What!? NT is out there!?
>That ISS crew shouldn't have NT up there. It is not rated for
>that kind of reliablity. Down here, fine, but not up there with
>everything depending on that thing.

The Windows computers in the ISS are not performing critical tasks.
The tasks that matter are performed by custom built machines with
their own real time os. The Windows machines only look at what the
real computers are doing.
Kees.

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