What really happened on Mars?

Posted by BFalkner on Wednesday October 01, 2008 @02:32AM
from the research.microsoft.com dept.

http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Mars_Pathfinder/Mars_Pathfinder.html

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Re:What really happened on Mars? by dacav on Wednesday October 01, 2008 @08:12AM (#320608)

Awesome... a professor told me about this too... I was wondering why this story appeared only today in ycombinator, since this is an old stuff... not so weird: I've noticed that the mail has been sent in 1997... :)

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Re:What really happened on Mars? by mhb on Wednesday October 01, 2008 @09:04AM (#320641)

Maybe people haven't wanted to duplicate everything that has been on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/xmq0/what_reall...

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Re:What really happened on Mars? by jacobscott on Wednesday October 01, 2008 @05:15AM (#320530)

For anyone who has to explain why concurrency is serious business (prof, TA, etc), this is an awesome example.

Hardcore debugging, too. Can't ever be too good at debugging.

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Re:What really happened on Mars? by pmorici on Wednesday October 01, 2008 @07:18AM (#320580)

The Prof. told this story in a graduate Opeating Systems class I took once upon a time.

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