In article , Robert Harvey
scribeth thus
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:02:35 +0000, Eric P. Peterson wrote:
(Who still believes WIN NT4 SP5 was the best OS that M$ ever produced)

In the sense of "least worst", I suppose.
W2K was quite reliable.

So it is!, we use that in a lot of locations for Radio station hard disk
playout, up for thousands of hours!...


Which is a good thing 'cos the US navy runs
warships on it. I still worry about whether it was reliable enough.

I unforget seeing a missile targetting system, built with Ferranti's
silicon on Sapphire chips, which ran a small multi-tasking kernel based on
BSD *nix. The uptime when the ship came in for refit was 1200 days. The
vessel had taken commission 1190 days before.

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Tony Sayer
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