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Wes wrote:

cavelamb himself wrote:

Zero hit the USS Yorktown like a torpedo. On September 21, 1997, -while
cruising off the coast of Virginia, the billion-dollar missile cruiser
shuddered to a halt. Yorktown was dead in the water.


It is tempting to bash windows but I guess it would not be fair.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_(CG-48)

The core problem was the the use of a desktop computer system in an
application for which it was ill suited. The good news is that aside
from some careers, nobody was hurt, but being without power, steering,
sensors, and weapons is the kind of thing that causes captains to wake
up screaming.

The SmartShip program died of injuries received in the Yorktown
incident, and is survived by a program of the same name that does not
involve control of key shipboard systems.

Joe Gwinn