On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:02:53 -0800, "Evan Gatehouse"
wrote:


"Jim Conlin" wrote in message
...
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.

Nope. The sales guy confirmed that it was the real deal. If you think
about what a radar has to do, a typical PC can probably do all the graphics
processing pretty easily.


IIRC the upgraded and refurbished Naval E2C planes stuff is done on
standard intel chips. militarised with surge protectors and other
anti-EMP hardware... but still stock intel chips.