Re: No Y2k Bug

[Bob Scheurle <scheurle@z-eclipse-z.net>]

On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 14:08:55 -0500, Joshua P. Hill
<XXjoshhill@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>>I didn't say it was the only one.  Just that it will do the job.  You
>>seem to be unable to accept the fact that people DO use NT in mission
>>critical roles.  Just because you are biased against that OS does not
>>mean that it is not successfully used in other people's systems.
>
>No one competent does. It isn't stable enough. There are other OS's
>that are designed for mission critical applications, and are superior
>in every way in those applications. And I'm not biased against NT; I'm
>running it right now.
>
>I mentioned this to some of my fellow engineers the other day and the
>reaction as a shocked "you must be kidding." We are talking massive
>professional incompetence here, on the order of a doctor prescribing
>the wrong drug.

At my company (well, not _my_ company; you know what I mean) we use Ada
on a bare machine.  No operating system, no run-time system, just the
tasking built into the Ada language.

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