From: "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>
Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?
Date: 2000/07/27
Date: 2000-07-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10Lf5.2604$ck.263517@news.flash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87puo0eg2m.fsf@deneb.enyo.de
"Florian Weimer" <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote in message
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> Scott Ingram <scott@silver.jhuapl.edu> writes:
>
> > A Google search on "therac 25" pops up about 1050 links.
>
> I guess you've omitted the quotes. If you enter them, the first hit is:
>
> http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/lib/Therac_25/Therac_1.html
>
> (A reprint of a IEEE Computer article, which is the canonical source
> for information on the Therac 25 incident, I think.)
Pfleeger in her text Software Engineering: Theory and Practice (1998) refers
to this 1993 Leveson/Turner article as the "Definitive analysis of a famous
software failure that resulted in loss of life." As far as I know, pretty
much everyone else accepts this as the canonical description of the
Therac-25 as well.
> Fortunately, you cannot blame any higher-level computer language
> for killing people, at least based on this incident. The offending
> software was written in PDP-11 assembly language, according to:
>
> http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/lib/Therac_25/Side_bar_1.html
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-17 0:00 Customer balks at Ada -- any hope? mjsilva
2000-07-17 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-19 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-20 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-07-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-17 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Rennie Allen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-07-20 0:00 ` Joseph C Williams
2000-07-21 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-07-18 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` nabbasi
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Rennie Allen
2000-07-19 0:00 ` nabbasi
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Philip Anderson
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-31 0:00 ` Harry Erwin
2000-07-31 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-07-18 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-18 0:00 ` wv12
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Kieran Mckey
2000-07-19 0:00 ` fdebruin
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Kieran Mckey
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?--Warning Significant Thread Drift Ahead Jeff Creem
2000-07-20 0:00 ` Kieran Mckey
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Customer balks at Ada -- any hope? Scott Ingram`
2000-07-26 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
2000-07-26 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
2000-07-26 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-07-26 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-07-27 0:00 ` Ken Garlington [this message]
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-19 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-24 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
2000-07-25 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-25 0:00 ` gdemont
2000-07-25 0:00 ` Gary Scott
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