Regarding Microsoft operating systems, control software,
and nuclear power plants:

I don't know if any nuclear plants run Windows-based control
systems.  Honeywell DCS control systems run Windows NT on the
operator stations.  These are commonly used in chemical
plants for plantwide process control.  I'm not sure if the
backend containing the data acquisition and control systems runs
Microsoft or a proprietary operating system, but the operator
interface stations do run Windows.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Densmore" <DensmoreB@ctbsonline.com>
To: <kclug@kclug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 1:57 PM
Subject: RE: Lets clear up some misconceptions

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jonathan Hutchins
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 1:33 PM
> > To: kclug@kclug.org
> > Subject: Re: Lets clear up some misconceptions
> > 
> > The fact that they offer one product - Windows - that runs 
> > everything from Grandmaw's web mail to the control systems 
> > for nuclear power 
> > plants is their biggest flaw.
> 
> Let's get one thing straight, Windows does not 
> run control systems for nulear power plants.
> No fool in any state of mind would use
> Windows for control systems for
> nuclear power plants. Such a thing would require
> a *real-time* operating system. 
> Whatever you're smoking at least be kind enough to share. 
> That must be some really potent stuff.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>