Re:RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

From: <dgoulet_at_vicr.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 12:43:51 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0033C867.20010628123554@fatcity.com>

Ross,

On number one, those Unisys workstations were standardized over all of the services since GSA singed a VERY large contract for them. We had them all over the place in the USAF as well.

On the second point, your dead right. I do not remember the ship involved, but it turned out to have been a SQL*Server bug that gpf'd the OS. The totality of the problem was that the ship's radar, navigation, weapons control, and digital electronic control system were all knocked out at the same time. Can you say "OOPS!!". The ship returned to port under manual control without incident. Seems someone at the Navy was a little old fashioned in their thinking.

BTW: My source of info here is the Air Force News Agency's daily news letter. They had a good laugh I'm sure since I understand that the F-22 was suppose to be NT driven as well initially. Better ideas I do believe have prevailed.

Dick Goulet

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Author: "Mohan; Ross" <MohanR_at_STARS-SMI.com>
Date:       6/28/2001 12:07 PM

I think it was the Navy.

The US Coast Guard has something called USCG SW-III (Standard Workstation III) that is NT 4.0 on Unisys. If you have ever worked at the Coast Guard, you know these boxes are EVERYWHERE. Some people even have two. They are highly standardized, well above average in MTBF and MTTR, and the Coast Guard runs on them.

I ::think:: (but could easily be wrong) that the Navy was trying to integrate an NT box with a disparate realtime targeting system and when the NT box GPF'ed, it downed the targeting radar. Prudence dictated the ship head back to port for repairs, radar being directly related to a destroyers seaworthiness.

But, again, this could be WAY WRONG, so two grains of salt, ok guys?

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Hahah, the software, the ship had to be towed back to port:) However, not sure if it was the coast guard or the navy, but I am going with the coast guard.
KK

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Walt
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 3:20 PM
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The software or the ship?

--Walt Weaver

Bozeman, Montana, USA

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On one of their newer ships they were using NT, and it froze up a couple of times.

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The Coast guard uses Unisys, too...but i don't know where NT fits in to their front line systems.

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