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Subject: Legal problems with Ethernet
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Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 12:47:03 EST
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From: "Steven H. Gutfreund" <GUTFREUND%umass-cs.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA>

RE: Mark Callow's comments in V6 #1 about not using Ethernet in a hospital
because of possible legal problems in using a probabilistic algorithm.

There would seem to be a fairly quick come-back that the defense lawyer
could make:

Hard disks use Hamming codes (CRC checks) to maintain data consistiancy.
Since there are undetectable errors every billion or so transactions, then
hospitals should not use disks because they occasionally pass undetected
bad data. Fooey!