Re: [LUG] Windows animosity.

[Jon Still <jon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Simon Waters wrote:

> The assertion that all American munitions run IBM, or that
> Cruise missiles run OS2 looks very suspect to me - can we have a
> reference. As does the previous assertion that the US Navy have

I'd say there's no merit to such a claim.  The military have always been
sticklers for building things from scratch to ensure security/reliability.
Besides, OS/2 isn't a realtime OS, which I'd imagine would be needed for a
totally isolated navigation/control system.

J.

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