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Re: The Airplane Example (was Re: Streaming XML)

• To: Rick Marshall <rjm@z...>
• Subject: Re: The Airplane Example (was Re: Streaming XML)
• From: Peter Hunsberger <peter.hunsberger@g...>
• Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 16:21:24 -0600
• Cc: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>, XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>
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• Reply-to: Peter Hunsberger <peter.hunsberger@g...>

On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 09:09:06 +1100, Rick Marshall <rjm@z...> wrote:
> Elliotte Harold wrote:
> 
> > Rick Marshall wrote:

<snip/>

> i have reliability problems from some point of sale software because the
> pc's get housed in enclosed spaces and cook themselves. but the pc dies
> slowly so it looks at first like bizarre software faults, but in reality
> it's random temporary circuit failures in the cpu. we debug the software
> by fixing the cooling!

Oh boy for some reason that brings back some old memories: somewhere I
have slides of IBM Engineers wandering around and old 360/75 with a
tea kettle.  Get the steam onto the right connectors and the silver
oxide would turn conductive and you'd found the cable connectors that
needed cleaning or replacing.  Perhaps even more bizarre was the
occasional debugging round that required the use of a baseball bat to
free up memory when the little tiny cores started shifting and
becoming attached to each other.

> 
> maybe we need holistic software development as a discipline ;)
> 

Anyone that's written a channel program for an IBM 360/370/390 series
can tell you the line between software and hardware is very blurry
indeed...

-- 
Peter Hunsberger

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