Interesting article about how data from a disk drive recovered from the columbia disaster was salvaged, thanks to the computer running DOS instead of another operating system, including Windows.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/0....ap/index.html
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Interesting article about how data from a disk drive recovered from the columbia disaster was salvaged, thanks to the computer running DOS instead of another operating system, including Windows.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/0....ap/index.html
on the other hand.... this article made me feel kind of old, when they called DOS ancient :(
Well, at least they don't use Vista. Wouldn't be good to have every shuttle blow up.
A Vista bashing comment? how clever.. haven't seen one of those in ages
You can always rely on the old classics.
...We mortals can only dream of the wonders of near-unlimited government funding.Quote:
but the 340-megabyte drive was only half full
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Originally Posted by wossname
As someone who uses Vista I might be a little biased, but I think Tom Sawyers comment was ...
... completely accurate.
In your case, it's most likely a pebkac error. The only computer you couldn't crash would be one that you hadn't figured out how to turn on.
No? Try me.
It would take a bit of effort, but I could probably get a BSoD on a computer which wasn't even plugged in... providing, of course, that Windows was already installed.
Besides, I used XP for a good 4 years without seeing a BSoD (although I have no doubt they occured... BSoD's are sneaky creatures)... and then I get two within an equal number of weeks with Vista. :rolleyes:
On the other hand, maybe you shouldn't try defragging, rendering, copying, playing a game and coding at the same time... [trails off...]
Worst thing was, I lost my unsaved render, my code and my game. Bloody Vista.
Oh my, yeeees, blame Vista for not being able to pander to all of your geeky desires simultaneously :rolleyes:
Might as well blame the processor for not supporting parallel processing.
That would be Micro$ofts fault to.Quote:
Originally Posted by MaximilianMayrhofer
The reason for the use of DOS. ... the shuttles run on 5 8086 chips... in fact there was a call out from NASA looking for old machines that still had the 8086 chips, as they were stockpiling in order to have spares.
-tg
Imagine a space shuttle that ran on the OSX. It wouldn't do anything, "But look, it fits in a plain manila envelope!"
if the space shuttle ran on OSX, Apple would have required NASA to also let them build the shuttle ;)
And then the shuttles would only be able to launch from Apple-built pads, which would only be constructed in Apple-owned countries.
I'll have you know I'm running a quad core. :p My geeky desires are fully pandered. :cool:Quote:
Might as well blame the processor for not supporting parallel processing.
Exactly! Now you're getting it.Quote:
That would be Micro$ofts fault to.