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philwelch on Jan 31, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Unique Ships of the U.S. Navy

The Navy tried Windows NT once, but it crashed and the ship had to be towed to harbor: http://gcn.com/Articles/1998/07/13/Software-glitches-leave-N...

Amezarak on Jan 31, 2015 | [–]

That's misleading. The failure had nothing to do with Windows NT, which is still used in the Navy.

philwelch on Jan 31, 2015 | | [–]

Yes, but that ruins what in 1998 was a highly amusing story.

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