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Re: No Y2k Bug



It was Sat, 08 Jan 2000 14:08:55 -0500, and Joshua P. Hill
<XXjoshhill@mindspring.com> wrote in misc.transport.urban-transit:
| Puh-leeze. this is total gobbledygook. You totally missed the point of
| my analogy, so I suppose I'll have to spell it out for you. Any OS can
| fail. Any OS in a crtiical safety application must have failsafes
| around it. NT fails much more often than other OS's. Putting a
| failsafe around it is like adding extra lifeboats to a leaky ship. It
| is *not* the right tool for mission critical applications.

And let me spell it out for you ...

WHAT IS "MISSION CRITICAL" DEPENDS ON THE MISSION.

Thank you for acknowledging the rest of my statements.

JL