lindsay@MATHOM.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay) (12/12/89)
In article <129100@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> khb@sun.UUCP (chiba) writes: >In the lab we can use all sorts of new toys. By >First Customer Shipment one expects the worst defects to be known and >fixed. A couple of years later the vendor makes a new widget and the >old one goes to the new guy/gal on the block. If there is an odd >failure mode that takes 5 years to show up, its not a problem. Bell Northern Research, circa 1970: "Build it strong and build it stout out of things you know about." Often a good attitude. It can apply to software, too. -- Don D.C.Lindsay Carnegie Mellon Computer Science