Jim Lux posted: > "The Therac-25 Accidents" (Postscript ) or (PDF). This paper is an updated version of the original IEEE Computer (July 1993) article. It also appears in the appendix of my book.
Well that was really horrible. Are car computers ECC? When all they did was engine management a memory glitch wouldn't have been too terrible, but now that some of them control automatic parking and other "higher" functions, and with around 100M units in circulation just in the USA, if they aren't ECC then memory glitches in running vehicles would have to be happening every day. David Mathog [email protected] Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
