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- From: bell-peter@yale.edu (Peter Bell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: LaserWriter sucks up Cat
- Date: 12 Dec 1992 10:34:10 -0500
- Organization: Yale University Science & Engineering UNIX(tm), New Haven, CT 06520-2158
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- References: <987853.2B25E112@cmhgate.fidonet.org> <1992Dec10.095921.29120@lin.foa.se> <1992Dec12.065032.4870@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec12.065032.4870@news.acns.nwu.edu> eepmatt@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Matthew Friedman) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec10.095921.29120@lin.foa.se> eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2) writes:
- >>YES! And a filterin the mac to make me write only bug free code that works as
- >>intended the first time!
- >>Erik Svensson Research Officer
- >>Guided Weapons Division National Defense Research Establishment (FOA)
- >>Stockholm Sweden
- >Wait a minute. This guy is having problems writing bug free code that works as
- >intended the first time? And he works for the GUIDED WEAPONS division!?!?!
- >Oh, boy... I want to be very very far away...
- ><grin>
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- Oh, don't worry. The stuff is beta tested. Anyone read the article in Sciece
- about the guidance computers for the Patriots we lent Israel and used in Saudi
- Arabia? (would have been out a year or so ago). Apparently, they checked
- a radar blip incoming at least twice to see if it was on a suspicious traj-
- ectory; it it was, they predicted where it should be at a given time, and
- launched at that spot. The problem was, there was some bug in the clock the
- clock they were using, such that they had a tendency to not recognize incoming
- ordnance 'cuz it was in the wrong place on a subsequent check, according to
- their clock.... the solution? Reboot the computers about once every eight
- hours while the folks at the pentagon wrote the patch.... I realize this
- has little to do with laserwriters and cats and macs, unless rebooting
- the machine involved a dialog box coming up saying "it is now safe to switch
- off your Patriots" :+) Or unless cats often slept on the missile batteries.
-
- --Peter
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