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> You'd see people who really knew the interface fly through tasks being multiple keystrokes ahead of the UI. I remember. This, unfortunately, killed people:
by acuozzo 1y ago
> You'd see people who really knew the interface fly through tasks being multiple keystrokes ahead of the UI.
I remember.
This, unfortunately, killed people: Therac-25. Granted, the underlying cause was a race condition, but the trigger was the flying fingers of experts typing ahead, unknowingly having been trained to rely on the hardware interlock present in older models.
- eviks 1y ago> This, unfortunately, killed people: Therac-25. Granted, the underlying cause was a race condition So it didn't kill people, something else was that cause
- acuozzo 1y agoI'm not trying to shift blame to the operators here, but in the absence of flying fingers, nobody would have died. Many, many, people received the right treatment in the Therac-25 machine. Also, the author of the buggy software had no idea it would be used to operate a machine without a hardware interlock as, AFAIR, it was not modified prior to being used with the Therac-25 model.