POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Astonishment : Re: Astonishment Server Time
7 Sep 2024 17:14:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Astonishment  
From: Mike Raiford
Date: 16 Jul 2008 12:56:40
Message: <487e2848$1@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson wrote:

>> And I wouldn't be surprised, anyway, if some MS software had a bug that
>> caused some patient to get over-dosed with radiation during cancer
>> treatment or some such.
> 
> I would be, since the machines that control that sort of thing tend to be 
> custom-built and not PC-controlled, at least not that I've seen 
> (admittedly, I've not spent a lot of time in cancer treatment facilities).

I remember seeing the heart monitor in a NICU reboot. Looked like it was 
running some customized *NIX judging by the lines of boot information 
that scrolled across.


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