On Saturday 05 January 2008 23:24, Alan Dayley wrote:
> Tuna wrote:
> > Chris Gehlker wrote:
> >> <http://www.crazyaviation.com/images/Windows.jpg>
> >
> > Please, PLEASE tell me that is fake.
>
> Absolutely fake.
Have you seen the commercials lately for Sync powered by Micro$oft?
They are integrating MS into cars now.
now that IS scary!
>
> I've surface studied what it takes to get software flight certified when
> I tasked at work to assess if we could do it. I am confident that no
> version of Windows could get that certification. For that matter, I
> don't know of any version of Linux that can either. For one thing
> flight certification requires specific documentation and testing that
> takes place during the development of the software. Neither Microsoft
> nor any Linux development that I know of follows such rules.
>
> More details are found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avionics_software
> and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178B.
>
> Fake but funny!
>
> Alan
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