[ale] Windows crashes L.A. Airport

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Jonathan Rickman wrote:
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> 
>>This happened after an [downgrade] from Unix to Windows. I 
>>don't think blame should be assigned to the technician who 
>>missed the task; rather, it seems a gross oversight for the 
>>FAA to guarantee that such a critical system will crash after 
>>only one missed maintenance task. Who's really at fault?"  
>>[My Linux firewall has been up for about 500 days.  Many 
>>suspect that the recent Northeast blackout was caused by a 
>>Windows virus.
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> In all fairness to Microsoft, the cause of the crash was apparently a poorly
> written application, rather than Windows itself.

I've not read the article, but I'll also submit that Windows is a lot 
more likely to crash because of a 'poorly written application' then any 
other OS I've ever worked with.  Generally, the application crashes, not 
the whole OS. YMMV

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
                             AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995