Re: No Y2k Bug

["Joshua P. Hill" <XXjoshhill@mindspring.com>]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2000 08:50:00 +1000, "Peter Dwyer"
<peter.dwyer@qr.com.au> wrote:

>
>Andrew Price <aprice@mail.dotcom.fr> wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 04 Jan 2000 22:50:21 -0500, Joshua P. Hill
>> <XXjoshhill@mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>> >On Tue, 04 Jan 2000 18:46:52 GMT, /dev/null@.com (Justa Lurker) wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >>But a number of trains run on Windows NT.
>> >
>> >Now that is very, very scary!
>>
>> It *might* be, if NT was used in any railway fail-safe applications
>> such as interlockings or ATP systems.
>>
>> But it isn't.
>
>Yes it is.

OK, now I *am* terrified.

Beyond issues of reliabilty, what kind of designers wouldn't know that
NT isn't designed or considered appropriate for real time or mission
critical applications, and what does that say about the general state
of their knowledge? This is very basic stuff!

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Josh