On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:27:29 +0000, Hal Merritt wrote: >I read about such, um, issues a while back. Seems that there were more and >more shipboard systems, but each was evolving on its own way lacking a common >strategy. That means the systems were often fundamentally incompatible and >therefore unable to communicate. Sounds silly, but I think an example was that >neither the radars nor the sonar could send target information to the guns. > >Say what you will about Windows, but it at least offered some potential >solution. ... > The solution is not Windows per se, but uniformity. There are specialized OSes used in, for example spacecraft, simpler and more robust which should be more suitable for embedded software. We seem to be back to the Bad Old Days of "No one ever lost his job for recommending IBM!" "C 'IBM' 'Microsoft' ALL"
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