Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!umd5!matthews From: matthews@umd5.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: A LEGAL Mac emulator! Message-ID: <5769@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 12 Dec 89 14:03:30 GMT References: <3268@brazos.Rice.edu> <1989Nov30.185438.6755@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <21924@brunix.UUCP> <14888@well.UUCP> <1989Dec10.213607.21807@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: matthews@umd5.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 12 In article <1989Dec10.213607.21807@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> forbes@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Jeff Forbes) writes: >Many semiconductor companies have disclaimers that their semiconductors >(of any type) may not be used in medical lifesupport equipment, unless certain >conditions are met. > > Jeff Is that because of moral arguments, or just plainly they know their ICs aren't reliable enough for medical life support equipment, and the certain conditions are backup stuff? Mike