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Windows TechEdge: Smooth sailing for NT

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 6, 1999

Thanks to Don Brock
for this link.

“… on board the USS Blue Ridge, Vice Adm. Walter Doran sits
down at his workstation hooked into the ship’s Secret Local Area
Network, pops open the C2PC (Command and Control PC) application,
and views a smart map. This gives him near real-time tracking data
of friendly and potentially enemy ships, aircraft, and troops in
the immediate area of the Korean peninsula.”

“Doran’s NT workstation is one of the 350 clients installed on
the Blue Ridge this year as part of a Navy-wide plan to outfit all
its major ships and bases worldwide with NT clients, networked to a
mix of NT and Unix servers. The Navy plans to use this global NT
network to run its mission-critical command and control
system…”


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