Punched card readers

From: Carlos Murillo <cmurillo_at_emtelsa.multi.net.co>
Date: Tue Jun 26 11:50:49 2001

At 06:48 PM 6/23/01 -0400, you wrote:
>> Straying a bit off topic, can someone explain why the Navy, a branch of
>> the US military, requiring rock solid, uncompromising stability in the
>> systems that control their vessels, in their infinite procedural and
>> compliance wisdom, would choose Windows NT to control battleships?
>> Sellam Ismail
>
>The NT wasn't the problem. It was their database app not handling a
>mistake -- a 0 input into a field that it didn't validate
>led to a divide by zero error their app didn't handle.

Yes, but in the version I heard, the database app's failure
then succeeded in bringing down NT. That is unacceptable.

Carlos.

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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Tue Jun 26 2001 - 11:50:49 BST