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German Nuclear Plant Infected With Computer Virus (reuters.com)
archatheist shares a Reuters report: A nuclear power plant in Germany has been found to be infected with computer viruses, but they appear not to have posed a threat to the facility's operations because it is isolated from the Internet, the station's operator said on Tuesday. The Gundremmingen plant, located about 120 km (75 miles) northwest of Munich, is run by the German utility RWE. The viruses, which include "W32.Ramnit" and "Conficker", were discovered at Gundremmingen's B unit in a computer system retrofitted in 2008 with data visualization software associated with equipment for moving nuclear fuel rods, RWE said.
I gave up after OS-9
OS-9 was/is a great OS. I used it to run a full multi-user multi-tasking system (with preemptive multi-tasking) on my Tandy CoCo back in the day (with 256kB of memory!), and also used it in many industrial embedded systems using a 68K.
Perhaps you are thinking of OS 9?
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OS-9 [wikipedia.org] was/is a great OS. I used it to run a full multi-user multi-tasking system (with preemptive multi-tasking) on my Tandy CoCo back in the day (with 256kB of memory!), and also used it in many industrial embedded systems using a 68K.
I second that; although I didn't know it would run on a CoCo. I worked at a summer job in 1989 as a technician at XYZ Corp., who made primarily OS-9 based industrial control boards. I remember writing a C-Compiler for their 68K board just for fun that produced "ROM-able" code. Incredible multitasking support in OS-9. I grew to really like that OS.
I was developing a Train Control System for OS-9, then Apple came out with there similarity named operating system for the Mac. Suddenly the newsgroups became unusable and you could no longer get rely on support for driver development, as they became flooded with Apple fanbois posting how they couldn't install this or that or some stupid thing. Way to kill a reasonably good OS, Apple.