I don't even remember when I first heard about it, it's part of my groundwork.
Important to remember that Therac-25 was not caused by gratuitous incompetence. The company that wrote the software did a great deal of testing and reviewed the code.
Unfortunately, it was early days and the concept of a race condition wasn't well-known, and the bug didn't surface until people got so familiar with the UI that they went through it very fast and hit that race condition.
A terrible tragedy.
Tom Ritchford /
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2024-07-20 21:31:46
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