[TenTec] Re: TenTec Digest, Vol 18, Issue 61

[John]

In the orion , is the second rx as good or better than the Jupiter ?  thanks
for a future Orion owner .   John kb2huk
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From: <martin at aa6e.net>
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Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 12:14 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Re: TenTec Digest, Vol 18, Issue 61


> W4ZV: "I find it odd to be writing this when there are so many IT experts
> on this reflector.  XP is Microsoft's greatest OS ever...right?  Guess
> what...since I gave my wife her XP laptop in December 2002, there have
> been no less than 119 updates according to its Installation History.
> I'm NOT an IT person, but for some reason I don't find this objectionable,
> and it puts the 46 updates on Orion since March 2003 into perspective."
>
> It's a fair bet that most of those XP updates had to do with Internet
> vulnerabilities rather than normal user interaction.  XP is also 1000's of
> times more complicated than Orion's SW.
>
> I hate to think what would happen if you subjected the Orion to _hostile_
probes
> like you get on the Internet!  (Actually, it would be interesting to see
how
> long Orion would survive if you sent it random data over the serial port.
I
> don't think I'll try that on _my_ rig.)
>
> -Martin
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