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From: lindsay@MATHOM.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Galileo
Keywords: reliable hardware
Message-ID: <7312@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 12 Dec 89 12:06:07 GMT
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In article <129100@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> khb@sun.UUCP (chiba) writes:

>In the lab we can use all sorts of new toys. By
>First Customer Shipment one expects the worst defects to be known and
>fixed. A couple of years later the vendor makes a new widget and the
>old one goes to the new guy/gal on the block. If there is an odd
>failure mode that takes 5 years to show up, its not a problem.


Bell Northern Research, circa 1970:

        "Build it strong
         and build it stout
         out of things
         you know about."


Often a good attitude. It can apply to software, too.

-- 
Don		D.C.Lindsay 	Carnegie Mellon Computer Science