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Re: [News] Microsoft Windows Worries US National Co-ordinator for Security and Counterterrorism

Tim Smith wrote:

In article <3058977.ltShciHBlh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Crash strike caution

,----[ Quote ]
| If Microfot's Windows operating system crashes and gives you the "blue
| screen of death", it's a pain in the proverbial, but it's hardly
| life-threatening. In 1998, however, a United States Navy destroyer, the
| USS Yorktown, was left stranded and vulnerable when its Windows
| NT-based control system failed.


It would have suffered exactly the same failure if it had been running Linux, so what is the point of posting this?


How would you know timmy? Were you the one that programmed that fiasco?

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