Posted by Datesfat Chicks on October 28, 2011, 3:21 pm
>...I saw a dark screen with a message in white letters across the top:
> Disk boot failure. Please insert System disk and press [Enter].
>This sure inspires confidence [NOT!] in a certain bank which I won't
>embarrass by naming, but its initials are BMO.
I can one-up that. I've seen Windows boot and error messages on glass
cockpit displays in a light aircraft.
Frankly, I don't want the avionics for any aircraft I'm traveling in
to be fueled by Windows.
At least they still have some primary flight instruments (attitude
indicator, altimeter, airspeed indicator, magnetic compass) in their
1940's forms hidden around the cockpit as the ultimate backup.
DFC
Posted by Bob Myers on November 1, 2011, 4:02 pm
> On 10/28/2011 11:21 AM, Datesfat Chicks wrote:
> > I can one-up that. I've seen Windows boot and error messages on glass
> > cockpit displays in a light aircraft.
> Scary.
What do you guys expect? A custom-written OS for each and every piece
of
gear? Face it, chances are very high that, with ANYTHING involving an
embedded
processor these days, you're looking at something that's running some
variant of
Windows or Linux.
Bob M.
Posted by Mark Olson on November 1, 2011, 4:27 pm
Bob Myers wrote:
>> On 10/28/2011 11:21 AM, Datesfat Chicks wrote:
>>
>> > I can one-up that. I've seen Windows boot and error messages on glass
>> > cockpit displays in a light aircraft.
>>
>> Scary.
>
>
> What do you guys expect? A custom-written OS for each and every piece
> of
> gear? Face it, chances are very high that, with ANYTHING involving an
> embedded
> processor these days, you're looking at something that's running some
> variant of
> Windows or Linux.
I'm a little out of touch- what about traditional RTOSes, such as VxWorks, etc?
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> Disk boot failure. Please insert System disk and press [Enter].
>This sure inspires confidence [NOT!] in a certain bank which I won't
>embarrass by naming, but its initials are BMO.