Article in Military & Aerospace Electronics (March 2001, Vol

Did anybody see the article “Navy postmortem tries to pinpoint what
went wrong with the ‘Smart Ship’ by Edward J. Walsh”??

After reading the article I spotted what went wrong in the 3rd paragraph
when they mentioned that an array of COTS computer workstations had
been outfitted with Windows NT. Didn’t those government types look
around before taking the lowest bidder? Didn’t the contractor know about
QNX?

Speaking as a former US Navy Submariner I would NEVER go to sea on
a ship with WinAnything running systems which my life depended on…

What a waste of my tax dollars…

~ Lee R. Copp
~ Project Engineer (EE/ME)
~ Michigan Scientific Corp.
~ 321 East Huron St.
~ Milford, MI 48381
~ 248-685-3939 x109 (V), 248-684-5406 (Fx)
~ http://www.michiganscientific.com
~ mailto:<Lee.R.Copp@MichiganScientific.com>

“Lee R. Copp” wrote:

Did anybody see the article “Navy postmortem tries to pinpoint what
went wrong with the ‘Smart Ship’ by Edward J. Walsh”??

After reading the article I spotted what went wrong in the 3rd paragraph
when they mentioned that an array of COTS computer workstations had
been outfitted with Windows NT. Didn’t those government types look
around before taking the lowest bidder? Didn’t the contractor know about
QNX?

Based on my experience, chances are the Win* solution was not the
cheapest. :<
Rounds solutions going into square problems abound…

Speaking as a former US Navy Submariner I would NEVER go to sea on
a ship with WinAnything running systems which my life depended on…

What a waste of my tax dollars…

~ Lee R. Copp
~ Project Engineer (EE/ME)
~ Michigan Scientific Corp.
~ 321 East Huron St.
~ Milford, MI 48381
~ 248-685-3939 x109 (V), 248-684-5406 (Fx)
~ > http://www.michiganscientific.com
~ mailto:> <Lee.R.Copp@MichiganScientific.com>

“Lee R. Copp” <Lee.R.Copp@MichiganScientific.com> wrote in message
news:98b201$ddj$2@inn.qnx.com

Did anybody see the article “Navy postmortem tries to pinpoint what
went wrong with the ‘Smart Ship’ by Edward J. Walsh”??

After reading the article I spotted what went wrong in the 3rd paragraph
when they mentioned that an array of COTS computer workstations had
been outfitted with Windows NT. Didn’t those government types look
around before taking the lowest bidder? Didn’t the contractor know about
QNX?

Speaking as a former US Navy Submariner I would NEVER go to sea on
a ship with WinAnything running systems which my life depended on…

What a waste of my tax dollars…

“there’s no bad systems. in 99.999% cases there’s bad programmers using
them”.

// wbr

~ Lee R. Copp
~ Project Engineer (EE/ME)
~ Michigan Scientific Corp.
~ 321 East Huron St.
~ Milford, MI 48381
~ 248-685-3939 x109 (V), 248-684-5406 (Fx)
~ > http://www.michiganscientific.com
~ mailto:> <Lee.R.Copp@MichiganScientific.com>

“there’s no bad systems. in 99.999% cases there’s bad programmers using
them”.

Hmph??..I would tend to disagree…there are some very bad systems out
there
and this is one very good example of what happens when you use a bad system
for a critical project…

~ Lee R. Copp
~ Project Engineer (EE/ME)
~ Michigan Scientific Corp.
~ 321 East Huron St.
~ Milford, MI 48381
~ 248-685-3939 x109 (V), 248-684-5406 (Fx)
~ http://www.michiganscientific.com
~ mailto:<Lee.R.Copp@MichiganScientific.com>