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The audience of this website is disproportionately aware of the Therac-25 compared to the general public. For the obvious reason, engineering, but also geograph

The audience of this website is disproportionately aware of the Therac-25 compared to the general public. For the obvious reason, engineering, but also geographically: The Therac-25 being a North American incident that affected Canada and the US. Whereas Theryc is a French company.

tjoff 7mo ago
While I do agree with your point, as a Swede not even born when the incidents happen I still knew about it, was brought up in a computer science class.
- XorNot 7mo ago
  If I have cancer then whether to trust the radiation machine due to the name is certainly a choice I can make, but you get to own your own priorities in that case.
  - tjoff 7mo ago
    I only commented on the case, nothing else.
torginus 7mo ago
I feel like I have heard about this in a million different management anecdotes in my corporate trainings about management stuff/QA.
ErroneousBosh 7mo ago
> The Therac-25 being a North American incident that affected Canada and the US CGR who provided the accelerators and basic PDP11-based computing platform were a French company. > Whereas Theryc is a French company. I have been a Citroën enthusiast for about 30 years. I love French cars. I have repaired lots of Valeo electronics modules for vehicles. I'm not sticking my head in a French fucking particle accelerator.