[EAS]12 second reboot

[pjk]

Subject:   12 second reboot

The military plans to have soldiers calling in airstrikes using
Windows CE on a hand-held Pocket PC !
(hopefully the coordinates for Redmond won't be the defaults)

<http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992005>

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from Phil Agre's latest mailing of URLs. My favorite quote

> If the Windows-based machine crashes, ......, it can be rebooted
> within 12 seconds. But can a Pocket PC -- more at home in a
> Starbucks coffee bar than on the battlefield -- handle combat
> conditions?

    --PJK