"Grumman-581" wrote:
"Jim Logajan" wrote in message
.. .
Which ones? (I'd like to know what avionics use MS Windows so I can
know which planes not to get into ;-) )

There are some aircraft systems that use an embedded version of XP and
WinCE from what I understood while working at Rockwell... Also an
embedded Linux derivative...

Systems employing embedded Linux I don't have a problem with. Even Wind
River now sells a version of Linux in addition to its VxWorks OS.