UNIX V7

Alexandre Souza alexandre-listas at e-secure.com.br
Fri Jun 12 10:40:06 CDT 2009


> Even worse than hospital databases is the critical monitoring
> equipment running on Windows.  When our first child was born the
> fetal monitor crashed.  It was running Windows NT, and guess who had
> to get it back up and running when none of the Hospital staff could.
> I was not amused.  I was even less amused by how ancient of a version
> of the OS they had running on a very modern Dell box.

    O.o

    Zane, as far as I know, there are no provisions for life support 
equipment in the license of Windows NT.

    If they are doing it, they are doing with no permissions, and DESERVE to 
be sued.

    Alexandre, PU1BZZ




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