Re: Please Post the MTBF for the Hurd

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From: Richard Caley
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1992 03:14

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In article <1992Mar3.021139.17963@wpi.WPI.EDU>, Lawrence C. Foard (lcf) writes:

lcf> What does the MTBF mean for software? All software is perfect
lcf> copies of the original?

But software is an abstraction, real computer systems are real
physical objects and interact with the real world and so fall over now
and again.

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