Text 15033, 36 rader
Skriven 2011-03-09 07:17:50 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
  Kommentar till text 14995 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Names will never hurt me...
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Replying to a message of Robert Bashe to Björn Felten:

 RB> Björn Felten wrote to Ward Dossche on Tuesday March 08 2011 at 14:30:

 BF>> Then again, if you drive around in a 20yo Mazda, you know all about
 BF>> junk cars.

 RB> Then you know what quality was. The 323F (station wagon) still has a
 RB> magnificant reputation for reliability - and the additional advantage
 RB> of practically no electronics to cause problems.

 RB> No need for an electronic correction to prevent the car from tipping
 RB> over in a sharp curve, no electronic messing around with the gasolune
 RB> injection - just plain, ordinary (previously) mechanical perfection.
 RB> It used to be standard. Nowadays nobody cares about the mechanical
 RB> qualities of a car - if anything is cruddy, just adjust it with the
 RB> electronics - and GOD help you if they ever crash or don't work for
 RB> some other reason.

 RB> Ever hear of the "elk test" (english "moose test")? Mercedes A-class
 RB> cars failed it and tipped over. The result? No redesign - Mercedes
 RB> merely re-programmed the computer to reduce the speed on sharp turns.
 RB> Lotsa luck if the computer doesn't work. Your home computer _never_ 
 RB> crashes either, does it?

Hopefully Mercedes is smart enough to not use any M$ product in their cars.

FWIW I worked with mainframes for 30+ years and *'ve NEVER seen or even heard
of an IBM mainframe crash or hang due to a software problem.  The *only*
crashes
I've seen have been accompanied by catastrophic hardware (and in some cases
power)
failures.

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