> Damn avionics ran on Windows NT OMG. I thought for things where human lives are acutely at stake they audit every single line of code. I mean, Windows has

> Damn avionics ran on Windows NT OMG. I thought for things where human lives are acutely at stake they audit every single line of code. I mean, Windows has a known history of crashes and freezes and things like that. I'd trust some kind of unix (BSD) a lot more than NT. Tangential: For many non-consumer applications, I see plenty of situations where you'd think a Unix variant (or even bare metal electronics) would be an obvious choice, but no it's usually a software running on top of Windows. Like, my local tyre shop has their wheel alignment software running on Windows XP. Before seeing that, I'd have thought it'd be some contraption with sensors attached to 7-segment LED display or something, which would also theoretically be able to run forever.