Re:The Therac-25 Incident
by siltpotato on Monday February 15, 2021 @03:25PM
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Apparently this is the seventh one. I've never worked on a safety critical system but this is the story that makes me wonder what it's like to do so.
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Re:The Therac-25 Incident
by matthias509 on Monday February 15, 2021 @05:47PM
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I used to work on public safety radio systems. Things which seem like minor issues like clipping the beginning of a transmission every now and then are showstopper defects in that space.
It’s because it can be the difference between “Shoot” and “Don’t shoot.”