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Scaling Mount Vista

Publication:GovExec.comDate:Mar 12 2007
Reporter:David Perera

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Standing tall in full dress uniform in a Rockville, Md., hotel conference room, Army Col. David Coker -- an expert in logistics information technology -- unabashedly makes an astonishing disclosure.

It's not classified, but it's mind-boggling: Until recently, the Army had been using the Microsoft DOS operating system to run its standard maintenance system. "Very archaic," Coker notes. Long ago surpassed by Windows, MS-DOS for most people is a distant memory of clunky green-screen commands from the early days of desktop computing.




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