From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 9 8: 0:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 986C937B407 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 08:00:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f89EuTN14204; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 10:56:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B9B8437.18DA2D57@iowna.com> Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 11:01:11 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.4-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: J S Cc: Neill Robins , David Kelly , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Re: NASA's Operating System?] References: <20010909061950.24928.qmail@nwcst282.netaddress.usa.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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