Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Jim Roland" <> | Subject | Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU! | Date | Sun, 1 Jul 2001 20:19:07 -0500 |
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----- Original Message ----- From: "William T Wilson" <fluffy@snurgle.org> To: "Ben Ford" <ben@kalifornia.com> Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 8:09 PM Subject: Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!
> 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.
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