[rescue] My new UltraSparc 5's, also my first Sun stations

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Dan Duncan <dand at pcisys.net>
" 
" On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
" > They still design their planes with custom software and systems, and
" > besides that, what makes you think that Fokker, Airbus, Douglas, or any
" > of the others are not just as stupid about Microsoft?
" 
" I don't recall the airline or type of plane, but a friend was
" flying recently and while the plane was still sitting on the
" runway they couldn't get the nav computer to work.  The fix
" was to remove power completely, which apparently couldn't be
" done from the cockpit without shutting down ALL power to the
" plane.  He was somewhat concerned about flying on a plane
" that required a reboot.

hmmm...  airbuses have always been 'glass cockpit' oriented...  the
original a300s had a notorious string of crashes due to airframe
flight behavior not in the fly-by-wire computer's programming.

" I heard Longhorn will be immune from the Blue Screen of Death.
" (They made it red.)

iirc that was the failure-to-boot screen, and they say it'll be back
to black in production.
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