From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 7 5:11: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ranger.argus-systems.com (ranger.argus-systems.com [206.221.232.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32F9C37B407 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 05:11:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dedog.argus-systems.co.uk (host62-172-81-235.host.btclick.com [62.172.81.235]) by ranger.argus-systems.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA06450 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 07:11:00 -0500 (CDT) Received: by dedog.argus-systems.co.uk (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:14:00 +0100 Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:14:00 +0100 From: Fergus Cameron To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NASA's Operating System? Message-ID: <20010907131400.B1612@dedog.argus-systems.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200109070243.f872htw89354@grumpy.dyndns.org> <67177953844.20010907074514@nc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <67177953844.20010907074514@nc.rr.com>; from freebsd@nc.rr.com on Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 07:45:14AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > But "the Yorktown's failure in September 1997 was not as simple as > reported," DiGiorgio said. - clip - > Maybe I have just totally missed something, but none of my calculators > or programs will 'skip' over a divide by zero.... like it said the problem is not as simple as mis-reported. i mean, all my systems are immune to the character of the data - byte ordering, types & usage, basic mathematical & physical theory etc. i would imagine programming other systems would be fairly complex task. "computer, send message" . . . "computer" . . . "hello . . ." ? ? ? ? ? ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message