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My understanding is that it was a UX issue - the "malfunctioning" was the system working as-directed by the user, but the UX was horrible for informing the user
by DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
My understanding is that it was a UX issue - the "malfunctioning" was the system working as-directed by the user, but the UX was horrible for informing the user what they were doing.
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- fossuser 6y agoIt was a lot worse than that: http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf That paper is long, but does a great job of giving the context and going deep on the details.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoThank you!