Is it possible that the demo unit was strictly a demo unit, intended to show the
look and feel of the system without actually having the guts? In my larcenous
youth, I did some of that. We called it 'prototyping'.

It could be worse. It might have been based on Win95.

Evan Gatehouse wrote:

I went to a Raytheon radar dog & pony show (demonstration for non English
speakers) last week. Their new model commercial radar was running simulator
software that was clearly buggy. So the sales guy shuts it down and waits
30 seconds and turns it back on. I joke "oh, you're rebooting it "

Up pops a typical bios screen with notes like 1.44M 3.5" floppy drive, and
then a "Windows XP" opening screen. Oh the horror. Bill Gates is in your
radar now.

When he opened the box all that was in there was a PC motherboard. This is
for a commercial ships radar with about a 18" display. I can't imagine I
was seeing more than $500 worth of hardware including the CRT. This unit
probably sells for 10-20x that amount.

Imagine if your radar connected to your sat phone etc. got a virus .

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