“USS Yorktown dead in water after divide by zero”
“...in September 1997, the Yorktown suffered a systems failure during maneuvers off the coast of Cape Charles, VA., apparently as a result of the failure to
prevent a divide by zero in a Windows NT application. The zero seems to
have been an erroneous data item that was manually entered. Atlantic Fleet
officials said the ship was dead in the water for about 2 hours and 45
minutes. A previous loss of propulsion occurred on 2 May 1997, also due to
software. Other system collapses are also indicated. [Source: Gregory
Slabodkin, Software glitches leave Navy Smart Ship dead in the water,
Government Computer News, 13 Jul 1998, PGN Stark Abstracting from
http://www.gcn.com/gcn/1998/July13/cov2.htm] “
Damn...
I trust our AEGIS cruisers and destroyers are running newer, more stable versions of Windows? Or preferably SOMETHING ELSE?
Like, oh, say, Linux? Or FreeBSD?
Land of the Freeware, home of the brave?