Re: No Y2k Bug

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

On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 14:54:51 GMT, /dev/null@.com (Justa Lurker) wrote:

>It was Thu, 06 Jan 2000 23:21:18 -0500, and Joshua P. Hill
><XXjoshhill@mindspring.com> wrote in misc.transport.urban-transit:
>| 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!
>
>This bias against NT seems to be vicious.  Mission Critical depends on
>the mission, and failsafes can be built into every system.  I use
>several NTs in my 'mission' and they run fine as long as someone
>doesn't pull the power plug out of the wall.
>
>All you have to do is build good failsafes around the computer and
>even a TRS-80 could do mission critical work.

Yeah, but would you use one? This has nothing to do wtih pro/anti NT
bias: since there are perfectly good OS's that are designed for
mission critical applications, it strikes me as--well, I'll be
blunt--professionally incompetent to use one that wasn't.

And NT was *not* designed for real time control. Period.

-- 

Josh