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To: Scott McCollum
http://www.info-sec.com/OSsec/OSsec_080498g_j.shtml
12 posted on 10/21/2002 3:20:37 PM PDT by dheretic
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To: dheretic
"The Yorktown lost control of its propulsion system because its computers were unable to divide by the number zero"

That's not NT, genius. That's because the systems were using old Pentium and fell prey to that chip's divsion bug. Although the problem was more hardware related and you should be complaining about the evil Intel Corporation crippling the ship, Microsoft-haters love to trot out this example as something that will "kill our fighting men from negligence."

Heck, I'd rather move everything on the Yorktown over to AMD Athlon-based systems. AMD products are just as good but cheaper than Intel's and that makes a taxpayer like me happy.
13 posted on 10/22/2002 9:03:52 AM PDT by Scott McCollum
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