Jeff Hellige wrote:
>> Ya mean that NT sunk our battleships???
>
>
> Thankfully, no. They've all been relegated to floating museums.
> All the aircraft carriers, subs, and battleships scattered along all the
> coasts as museums/tourist attractions would make quite a fleet all on
> their own! Certainly you would never see anything like a battleship
> ever again if the existing ones were scrapped.
>
> Jeff
Sellam was probably referring to the 1998 incident in which the
Aegis-missile cruiser USS Yorktown was left dead in the water for
several hours when the ships propulsion system was shutdown by a
database overflow in Windows NT. The crash was caused by a
divide-by-zero error.
Mike
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Received on Mon Jun 25 2001 - 11:29:52 BST