Windows for critical infrastructure (was Re: UNIX V7)

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Josh Dersch wrote:
>>  Apparently.  Go look up the news archives for the Yorktown story.  
>> Read the facts before you make assumptions and accuse people of not 
>> knowing what they're talking about just because you don't like what 
>> they're saying.
> 
> I've never seen an explanation of what the failure actually was, just 
> lots of articles stating that Windows NT was being used as the OS and 
> -something- went wrong.  It could just as easily have been buggy client 
> software that crashed.

The explanation at the time was that one of the operators put a zero 
into a database field he shouldn't have, which caused a divide-by-zero 
problem which led to a buffer overrun which cascaded to all of the 
workstations on the network.

Peace...  Sridhar