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To: BILL CHOW who wrote (13569)	1/14/1998 5:22:00 PM
From: P2V	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Bill, my old employer, (the FAA) uses a Tandem pathway system titled MCS (maintenance control system), to monitor & control Radar, and other Aircraft guidance systems. Government people love acronyms. Among other things, this system will be used to turn on runway approach/landing lights at small unmanned airports, just as an aircraft approaches the airport. Would you feel comfortable with a planned night landing at one of these small airports, knowing that the MCS system was running under a Windows NT operating system ?? (( Hope you don't think this is a loaded question ?? << GG >>

To: BILL CHOW who wrote (13569)	1/15/1998 5:36:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Tandem is porting significant parts of NSK to NT. This is a deep port in line with the partnership agreement Tandem made with Microsoft some time before the acquisition of Tandem by CPQ. There's no reason for CPQ to interfere with this and every reason for them to support it, so I have to believe it's proceeding, as periodic product releases support. This fact was the basis of my earlier speculation on this thread that NT may become less flakey as a NOS in the near future. I'm curious to see how it all unfolds. Regards