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From: tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk (Tom Wheeley)
Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada?
Date: 1997/04/12
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In article <5im3an$3dv@bcrkh13.bnr.ca>
           kaz@vision.crest.nt.com "Kaz Kylheku" writes:

> I wouldn't trust my life to any computer system, especially if it had ``Intel
> inside''. There are too many things that can go wrong _beside_ programming
> errors. There is buggy hardware. There is also correct hardware which fails to
> be fault tolerant. The sheer component count in a modern computer system is
> astounding, as is the small size of the individual components. Would you trust
> your life to a system in which an alpha particle emission can cause
> unpredictable behavior?

You'll never fly in an Airbus then?

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