[rescue] UPS Recommendation

Shannon shannon at widomaker.com
Fri Jul 18 10:46:20 CDT 2003


On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 06:09:54PM -0400, Andrew Weiss wrote:

> Never trust 911 services... a certain state's 911 call center is being 
> *cough* downgraded by my company from a legacy RISC system to Win32 on 
> Intel.

Canada is doing air-traffic control systems with Windows now.

Saw one of them on TV 6 months ago.

That's incredibly scary...

Then again, Homeland (in)Security in the US just made a big Dell/Windows
contract, and our military is a heavy user too.

I hate to think of really having to depend on that crap.

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