From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 8 13:56: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cswgraphics.com (host-64-65-195-100.choiceone.net [64.65.195.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 447F937B40A for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 13:55:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from citystamp.com (wanid.cswgraphics.com [64.65.195.58]) by cswgraphics.com (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA05037; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 16:54:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3BC0C185.BD2D75A8@citystamp.com> Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 16:56:37 -0400 From: "Matthew P. Marino" Reply-To: bind9@citystamp.com Organization: City Stamp Works Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brandon Fosdick Cc: J S , Neill Robins , David Kelly , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Re: NASA's Operating System?] References: <20010909061950.24928.qmail@nwcst282.netaddress.usa.net> <3B9B8D3F.42D81D51@glue.umd.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 It's certainly true that if want stability, you don't want to be the first kid on the block with a new processor/OS combination. There's lot's of little issues in military procurement like components made in un-trusted nations etc. etc. So, pentium pro and NT isn't so bad. The kinds of controls and calculations I imagine run a navy vesel are probably very old school physics type stuff. Tragectory, inertia, cartography etc. In ironic way, no where near as taxing as 3d-rendering a scene from "Toy Story 2" on a computer. As long as they promise not to run IIS or code red will take on a whole new meaning.. Brandon Fosdick wrote: > > J S wrote: > > > > wow, dual pentium pros running NT, talk about a "modern" navy. i think they > > Maybe Pentium Pro is the latest processor that's up to MILSPEC? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message