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Someone once told me that a lot of the big navy ships run on a customized version of Windows XP! Can anyone here confirm?
by todd3834 7y ago
Someone once told me that a lot of the big navy ships run on a customized version of Windows XP! Can anyone here confirm?
- todd3834 7y agohttps://www.computerworld.com/article/2939435/us-navy-paid-millions-to-stay-on-windows-xp.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2939435/us-navy-paid-m...
- userbinator 7y agoInterestingly, in 2011 they were still using MS-DOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Navy_110129-N-7676W-152_Culinary_Specialist_3rd_Class_John_Smith_uses_the_existing_DOS-based_food_service_management_system_aboard_the_aircraft.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Navy_110129-N-7676W-15... ...and a lot of (physical) stores still use a DOS-based application for their POS systems, judging by the appearance, although they might not actually be running it on DOS but a later version of Windows.
- reaperducer 7y agoIn some of the big department stores the POS is still a dumb terminal. You don't mess with what works.
- dredmorbius 7y agoSCO UnixWare / OpenServer was the basis for many POS systems, with curses displays resembling (though not) DOS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenServer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenServer
- StudyAnimal 7y agoWoah only 9 million , , that is a bargain and certainly a lot cheaper than the alternative. I thought MS would have charged military prices.
- mr_toad 7y agoNot just the US navy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_Command_System#SMCS-NG_as_first_deployment_of_%22Windows_for_Warships%22 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_Command_System#SMC...
- AnaniasAnanas 7y agoNon-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_Command_System#SMCS-NG_as_first_deployment_of_%22Windows_for_Warships%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_Command_System#SMCS-...
- wrs 7y agoI went with some other Microsoft folks on a tour of a ballistic missile sub 15 (?) years ago. The missile control room had a PC running Windows NT 3.51. The person in charge saw the nervous looks we were giving each other and understood our concern immediately. He assured us the PC was just for keeping logs, and the computer behind us, a thing the size of two large refrigerators that based on appearance could have contained vacuum tubes, was in control of the missiles. We all breathed a sigh of relief.
- YeGoblynQueenne 7y agoBut what did the big computer run?
- bayareanative 7y agoWindows XP Embedded counts as a RTOS.
- anticensor 7y agoIt does not. Windows kernel is not real-time.