Messages in this thread | | | From | "James A. Sutherland" <> | Subject | Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU! | Date | Mon, 02 Jul 2001 12:37:35 -0700 |
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On Sun, 1 Jul 2001 20:19:07 -0500 Mon, 2 Jul 01 12:25:43 BST, you wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "William T Wilson" <fluffy@snurgle.org> >> On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Ben Ford wrote: >> >> > This seems to be meant as a joke, but I don't think it's all that >unlikely. >> > >> > I seem to recall that MS products cannot be used in aircraft control >> > rooms for this reason. >> >> It's not just MS. Aircraft control rooms (as well as nuclear power >> plants, spacecraft mission control, etc.) require special certified >> software to be used - it's not simply that they avoid MS, they avoid all >> software that hasn't been blessed. >> >> My understanding is that astronauts going up on the shuttle take turns >> bringing a laptop computer so they have actual computing power available >> to them. The shuttle computer is not adequate for many tasks because it >> is something like 30 years old, but that's what they use because it is >> certified. So somebody has to bring along a non-certified system in their >> "personal effects" allowance to get real work done :} > >From what I've heard, NASA relies heavily on modified Linux.
Last time I was in Mission Control at JSC, some of the consoles I looked at were very obviously X desktops. I didn't look closely enough to identify them more specifically - I'll take a closer look next month when I'm out there again...
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