 Features of 9LV Mk3 included a fully distributed system, based on Ethernet LAN, with small, location independent, applications implemented in Ada.It also featured a "system family" concept, with all ship classes based on a common code base (reference book on reuse) and multi-function consoles, allowing any operator to perform any task from any position.Aiming to benefit from the fast development of commercially available hardware, the software base of MK3 was transferred to Intel based processors on cPCI, running MS Windows NT instead of the real-time OS-9 used in MK3.