From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 7 20:25:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-57-209.knology.net [24.214.57.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BA3C37B401 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 20:25:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f883Oow82902; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 22:24:50 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200109080324.f883Oow82902@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: David Kelly , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: NASA's Operating System? In-reply-to: Message from Giorgos Keramidas of "Fri, 07 Sep 2001 07:13:48 +0300." <20010907071348.A1167@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 22:24:50 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Giorgos Keramidas writes: > From: David Kelly > > > > In all fairness to NT the failure was in the Navy's software and not > > Microsoft's. Then again some claim an advantage of Windows is the > > ability to use personnel of lower skills. And some believe "garbage in, > > garbage out." > > This is what I was looking for, yes. I'll read the article again, > because it left me with an impression that 'it was all NT's fault'. Several of the reports erroniously tried to blame it all on NT. The problem is higher up the chain of command. If software tries to divide by zero and hasn't set error handlers to catch the situation beforehand then it is correct for the OS to dump the process. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message