Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!inesc!unl!unl!jpc From: jpc@fct.unl.pt (Jose Pina Coelho) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: air traffic control? Message-ID: Date: 27 May 91 12:08:16 GMT References: <9105241440.AA25083@fis1.shearson.com> Sender: news@fct.unl.pt (USENET News System) Organization: Universidade Nova de Lisboa -- Lisbon, Portugal Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: fgreco@govt.shearson.COM's message of 24 May 91 14:40:51 GMT In article <9105241440.AA25083@fis1.shearson.com> fgreco@govt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco) writes: > ) We are trying to bring up an Air Traffic Control display on > ) an X window terminal and there seems to be some problems. > > [insert-favorite-deity-here] help us all! Forget about the favourite, just insert them all. The planes are going to start crashing by the dozen each hour. As long as X can be crashed by a stray client (though it needs no client to crash) it cannot be used for applications where safety is considered. Of course, in a simulator would be O.K. Attention ANA76, VAR89, TYD457: Lookout for each other, the shape extension is gone and we can't tell you appart. [General Broadcast] - Everybody: the server has gone down and we need 5 minutes to get it and the ATC running... Trty not to crash. -- Jose Pedro T. Pina Coelho | BITNET/Internet: jpc@fct.unl.pt Rua Jau N 1, 2 Dto | UUCP: ...!mcsun!unl!jpc 1300 Lisboa, PORTUGAL | Home phone: (+351) (1) 640767 - If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister ?