Re:Stop playing solitaire on my dialysis machine (Score 1)

Medical Imaging equipment from GE and all the other vendors mentioned do NOT run on windows. Unix, Apple, VAX, DOS, and many proprietory/custom made OS's are used. Ok so there is not much in the way of VAX still around. TCP/IP networking is required for many devices and image aquisition/processing stations. The DICOM "protocol" runs on top of TCP/IP stack. IT's not much of protocol, more like some custom commands for imaging purposes. Most digital medical images require lots a filtering(fourier space etc). Some of the cardiac SPECT studies are VERY cpu intensive. Thus the Unix as OS. If a station/terminal is only for image acquisition a lesser OS can be used however. Every time we had an upgrade something broke. Hope that clears things up a little.