Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> __/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Monday 26 February 2007 13:58 \__
>
>> 'The Type 45 destroyers now being launched will run Windows for Warships:
>> and that's not all. The attack submarine Torbay has been retrofitted
>> with Microsoft-based command systems, and as time goes by the rest of
>> the British submarine fleet will get the same treatment, including the
>> Vanguard class (V class). The V boats carry the UK's nuclear weapons
>> and are armed with Trident ICBMs, tipped with multiple H-bomb warheads'
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/26/windows_boxes_at_sea/
>
> And Mr. Security Guru jumps on the easy prey:
>
> http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/windows_for_war_1.html
>
> "And here's a related story about a software bug in the F-22 Raptor stealth
> fighter. It seems that the computer systems had problems flying West across
> the International Date Line."
>
> Yup. A software bug crashed a plane yesterday. When I first saw it I couldn't
> quite determine out what it ran and I didn't think it would be Windows (RTOS
> is more likely), so this wasn't mentioned.
It is "semi" urban myth. But it happened with the European Fighter
Aircraft in a simulation too - it crossed the equator and flipped
upside down.....
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