[lug] Linux mentioned in CrossTalk

[Andrew Diederich]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Timothy C. Klein wrote:

> This reminds me of a short piece I saw on TechTV once.  They were doing
> their 'Battlefields of Tomorrow' or whatever it is called show.  The
> episode was on the new "Smart Soldier" technology that each GI would
> have.  HUD, GPS, monitor on the wrist, gun hooked into computer laser
> sight, electronic access to command and control and tactical data, etc.
> 
> Towards the end, the TechTV guy says: 'And the great part is that it is
> built from off-the-shelf-components, and runs a version of Windows to
> control it all.'

I think they gave up on the windows thing.  Too many problems, too big.

-- 
Andrew

> 
> I nearly choked on my soda!  Literally life-or-death software, and some
> bonehead at the Pentagon decided to control it with Windows?  Can you
> imagine?  The enemy is about to kill you, unless you kill him first,
> and your gun fails to fire, with your on-wrist computer telling you
> 'Press Ctl-Alt-Del to reboot -- there has been a system error.'
> 
> Yikes.
> 
> Tim