“The special tour for bigwigs from Silicon Valley companies,
government and academia was sponsored by the Naval Postgraduate
School in Monterey…”
“The Navy’s goal is to have all machines on a ship running on
the same operating system and connected to each other via a
shipwide LAN. An officer who needs information or needs to issue a
command to a human or a machine will be able to do so from any PC
onboard. The plan, which is being called “IT 21,” … includes a
directive to use “off the shelf” Intel-based hardware and software
and to adopt Windows NT as the standard server network operating
system.
“Although I’m pleased to see the Navy transitioning to
off-the-shelf products, I’m a bit nervous about standardizing on
NT…”