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From: "Beard, Frank" <beardf@spawar.navy.mil>
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Subject: RE: Crash-Free Software
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 21:50:33 -0500
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Date: 2000-12-13T21:50:33-05:00

> I heard a short sound bite from the project leader.  His example for
> research was "truly plug and play device driver".  I am not much
> impressed by this statement.

Being one who is subject to having things taken out of the context in
which I meant them (and I accept that part of the fault lies with me),
I'll take a stab at what he might have meant.

Maybe he was saying, "Unlike Microsoft Plug-n-play (and play and play)
devices that can crash the operating system, we will have devices on
a robust OS, with robust drivers, that will handle problems, report them,
recover, and continue working".

Of course, that's just my opinion.  I could be wrong.