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To: Fido969
> I wonder if anyone uses Windows for mission-critical applications such as military or space-flight.

Yeah, the military (ours and Britain's and probably a few others) integrated Windows XP years ago into the control and/or monitoring systems. And it's still there.

I don't have the links right at hand, but Google is your friend -- there are recurring tech articles about the compromised security that has resulted from the military using Windows in mission critical applications.

12 posted on 04/04/2019 2:36:25 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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To: dayglored

My engineer pals have several XP boxes in use. I have been told that they don’t run anything, just glorified monitoring units.


25 posted on 04/04/2019 2:58:35 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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