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Date:	Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:40:29 PST8
From:	"Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: OT: FAA times out . . . (was W2K pagefile.sys )

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On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:18:16 PST8, Mark D. Overholser wrote:

>Remember, this is Windows (TM), the OS that requires reboots for things
>that "other" OS's just do by running a little "script".

Now that I have you all on the line, I am curious about an article
appearing in the latest IEEE Spectrum, just here, about a Harris Corp.
system installed for the FAA which crashed causing LA control towers
to be unable to reach any planes . . . then the backup system also
failed. Fortunately there were no crashes because of some automated
system built into new planes ("Pull up . . . ! Pull up . . . !).
Anyway the postmortem discovered that the SOP to reboot the system
every 30 days had not been followed, since it was designed to
crash every 49 days due to some timer sequence termination.
Could this be some W(%&*& behavior? If so why would anyone design
a system in this way? And does OS/2 suffer a similar vulnerability?
What to do? Gory details please.

Jeffrey Race

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