Hi, Those of you who know me well also know that I collect automated musical instruments, and have a fondness for organ music.
Nick Walker found this link and sent it to me: http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20031203S0032 about an Aeolian-Skinner organ at Trinity Church in NYC that was destroyed by the dust and dirt caused by the World Trade Center collapsing on 9/11. >From there I read several articles, including the one at this address: http://www.organpower.com/DoubleOpen5401.pdf where on page 6 of the pdf it has the words: "The Windows operating system which most people are familiar with was not designed for use in stand alone applications such as this. The reliability issues which afflict most PC users would never be tolerated in equipment which is expected to turn on and work every time, as a church organ is. The decision was made to develop the organ's control and tone generation systems in a Linux environment. Linux, a highly stable operating system, is considered by many to be the finest environment in which to run this type of stand alone application on either standard or embedded controller PCs." - From an article entitled "Epiphany on Wall Street", Open: A Publication of the New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists Regards, md -- Jon "maddog" Hall Executive Director Linux(R) International email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association, USENIX Association (R)Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the US and other countries. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
