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Article #3326Re: Galileo
From: Donald Lindsay
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1989 12:06
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1989 12:06
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In article <129100@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> khb@sun.UUCP (chiba) writes:
>In the lab we can use all sorts of new toys. By
>First Customer Shipment one expects the worst defects to be known and
>fixed. A couple of years later the vendor makes a new widget and the
>old one goes to the new guy/gal on the block. If there is an odd
>failure mode that takes 5 years to show up, its not a problem.
Bell Northern Research, circa 1970:
"Build it strong
and build it stout
out of things
you know about."
Often a good attitude. It can apply to software, too.
--
Don D.C.Lindsay Carnegie Mellon Computer Science
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!MATHOM.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU!lindsay From: lindsay@MATHOM.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Galileo Keywords: reliable hardware Message-ID: <7312@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 12 Dec 89 12:06:07 GMT References: <603@ryn.esg.dec.com> <129100@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 21