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Echos of Therac-25. Not nearly as bad... no one's dead yet.
by icegreentea 16y ago
Echos of Therac-25. Not nearly as bad... no one's dead yet.
- gry 16y agoOh, oh! I tried to find a book I have with the Therace-25 case study. If I recall, race conditions tripped the integer byte datatype and fired radiation at that point in time. Ten years later, I've meant to finish the book. It's in a box somewhere.
- tedunangst 16y agoThis guy is dead. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/health/24radiation.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/health/24radiation.html Actually, if you look at the author's work, he's been covering radiation overdose all year. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/walt_bogdanich/index.html?inline=nyt-per http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b...