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Therac-25: A landmark case study in software engineering failure (wikipedia.org)
9 points by engelo_b 8 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments




Lots of comments from the past:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Therac


it’s definitely one of those evergreen engineering disasters. I fell down the rabbit hole reading about it again recently because the core issue replacing hardware interlocks with software logic feels eerily relevant to what we are seeing in the automotive/EV space right now.



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