Ken Sletten writes:

> FWIW, I will add that in an effort to solve the "Tower of Babel" problem
> with multiple operating systems, senior manager in the US Navy have
> put out something called "IT-21".  The way I read it (and I have only
> skimmed it;  one of these days I will go back and try and understand
> the details), it says that *ALL* Navy desktop / *network* operating
> systems will be MS Windows 95-98-2000 / NT based ASAP...  and
> approval of exceptions (if any) will be *extremely* limited.

I'm having difficulty seeing why that makes any more sense than requiring
all "mainframe" OSs to be the same.

--Glenn