Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 15 Apr 91 21:16:42 GMT From: "Ronald T. Crocker" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Documentation Wanted on January '90 AT&T Outage Message-ID: Organization: Motorola Inc. - Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Hgts, IL Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 296, Message 2 of 14 Lines: 21 WARNING: Personal comments follow and do not indicate the feelings of my employer with reference to this incident. There was some publications around the time of the incident indicating that the problem was a missing break statement in some C code in the 4ESS software. It was indicated that the generic was installed in the offending office in December, was up and running with "no" problems for three weeks. I know more about this, but am bound by agreements to not disclose it. The immediate (kneejerk?) reaction by AT&T management was to insist on everyone at Bell Labs taking a course in C programming, and find a tool that would highlight missing break statements. Nothing like shooting the message carrier :->.-- Ron Crocker Motorola Radio-Telephone Systems Group, Cellular Infrastructure Group (708) 632-4752 [FAX: (708) 632-4430] crocker@mot.com or uunet!motcid!crocker