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Old September 4th 06, 01:34 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Dylan Smith
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Default Why don't voice radio communications use FM?

On 2006-09-03, Mxsmanic wrote:
As far as I know (and hope), these cockpits don't have any trace of
Windows running in them. If they do, the situation is much more dire
than I had feared.


I've seen general aviation displays that run Windows NT. They don't have
the Win32 subsystem (which is what really sullies the NT based operating
systems, the actual NT kernel that lies beneath things like the win32
subsystem is quite small and elegant).

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