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Re: Discussion point: Telco quality?
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () scfn thpl lib fl us>
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 13:02:29 -0400
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 07:32:01PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
What WILL bring down the whole house..:my favorite was the one byte change to the switch code which took out a big chunk of the country.
Are you referring to the 4ESS SS7 cascade crash of several years back, Randy? I seem to recall that that was more than one character. Couple of lines. Now, there _was_ a one character problem in a FORTRTAN program that killed a space probe... The Neumann and Lee books are quite good references on this, albeit the Lee book is a touch sensational. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra () baylink com Member of the Technical Staff Buy copies of The New Hackers Dictionary. The Suncoast Freenet Give them to all your friends. Tampa Bay, Florida http://www.ccil.org/jargon/ +1 813 790 7592
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- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality?, (continued)
- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? Geoff Lisk (Oct 11)
- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? Paul Ferguson (Oct 11)
- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? Dan Hollis (Oct 11)
- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? Chris Kilbourn (Oct 12)
- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? dharvey (Oct 08)
- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? Sean Donelan (Oct 10)
- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? David Lesher (Oct 10)
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- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? David Lesher (Oct 10)
- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? Randy Bush (Oct 10)
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- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? Jay R. Ashworth (Oct 11)
- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? Roeland M.J. Meyer (Oct 11)
- Re: Discussion point: Telco quality? Geoff Lisk (Oct 11)