> On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Ben Ford wrote:
>
> > This seems to be meant as a joke, but I don't think it's all that
unlikely.
> >
> > I seem to recall that MS products cannot be used in aircraft control
> > rooms for this reason.
>
> It's not just MS. Aircraft control rooms (as well as nuclear power
> plants, spacecraft mission control, etc.) require special certified
> software to be used - it's not simply that they avoid MS, they avoid all
> software that hasn't been blessed.
>
> My understanding is that astronauts going up on the shuttle take turns
> bringing a laptop computer so they have actual computing power available
> to them. The shuttle computer is not adequate for many tasks because it
> is something like 30 years old, but that's what they use because it is
> certified. So somebody has to bring along a non-certified system in their
> "personal effects" allowance to get real work done :}
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