Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 11:01:11 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: J S <spl1t_h0r1z0n@usa.net> Cc: Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com>, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Re: NASA's Operating System?] Message-ID: <3B9B8437.18DA2D57@iowna.com> References: <20010909061950.24928.qmail@nwcst282.netaddress.usa.net>
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I see a correlation: > > DK> Then again some claim an advantage of Windows is the > > DK> ability to use personnel of lower skills. And some believe "garbage in, > > DK> garbage out." > > "If you understand computers, you know that a computer normally is > > immune to the character of the data it processes," he wrote in the > > June U.S. Naval Institute's Proceedings Magazine. "Your $2.95 > > calculator, for example, gives you a zero when you try to divide a > > number by zero, and does not stop executing the next set of > > instructions. It seems that the computers on the Yorktown were not > > designed to tolerate such a simple failure." I sure can see where the garbage comes in from. Someone writing reports telling people that x/0=0 I'll have to say, my experience in this field has led me to believe strongly in the GIGO principal. - "Where's the robot to pat you on the back?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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