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Performing Illegal Operations
It is a little after 3 pm on Monday afternoon. I am watching the local Dopler Radar on Channel 5 and they have spotted a 'rotation' indicating a possible tornado by Ravenna. When they go to zoom in, a dialog box pops up... "This program has performed an illegal operation and will shut down...". I switch over to Channel 19, they are also showing their Dopler, as is Channel 3. After a few minutes I switch back to Channel 5, they have re-booted and are showing the latest radar scans. Not one minute goes by, when AGAIN, the same dialog box pops up... "This program has performed an illegal operation..." Looks like a Windows 2000 [or prior] dialog box. Well, in Cleveland we have redundant systems [3 local staions with 3 separate Doplers], but what about some little town in the middle of nowhere that has one Dopler and the interface running on the same Windows system as Channel 5's. Could lives be lost as the local station constantly re-boots trying to determine the path of the rotation? I wonder how many of our 'homeland security' and emergency systems are also based on a crash-prone OS?
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