Re: Nine o'clock News

["Robert Speed" <nospam [at] Viclabs.co.uk>]

The Stock Exchange in Tokyo runs on Acorn RISC-PCs....


On 6 Apr 00, at 13:15, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 09:17:59PM +0100, Richard wrote:
> > stock exchange software problem.  They don't mention which operating
> > system it is that crashed.  But, all of the shots of the offices have
> > MS Windows screens on them.
> 
> 	I think that the mainframes use something serious. But brokers
> are bound to be using Windows much as everybody else in this world... I
> seem to recall a friend mentioning Solaris, but that might be me just
> spreading FUD }:-D
> 
> 	José
> 
> 	
> 
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> José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
> 					Radar & Communications Group
> 					Department of Electronic Engineering
> 					University of Sheffield UK
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The nice thing about Windows is that it doesn't just crash.
It displays a dialogue box and lets you click OK first.
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