Re: Future of Delphi 7.x - need official word from Borland

From: TJC Support (jvsREMOVE_at_REMOVEtybeejet.com)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:03:20 -0600

"Kirk Halgren" <khalgren@sti.nasa.gov> wrote in message
news:41f7bbe1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> Did you know that the computers onboard the Space Shuttle use the
> venerable
> IBM 360 architecture? The hardware is more recent, but they want an OS
> which is as stable as possible. That architecture marked the first time
> customers could move their programs from one model to another (prior to
> that, each new mainframe had a different architecture, so needed all apps
> to
> be rewritten from scratch!).

Yes, and a good idea IMHO. Some of the hardware on current transport
category airplanes is running a well known and not so stable OS for portions
of the system, and that's scary. The phrases "mission critical" and
"Microsoft" are much like vinegar and oil.... Frequent updates with new
features that the market demands make for lots of bugs and an unstable
platform. But that's the price of getting new features fast.

Van

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