On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:51:25 -0700, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
wrote:

>Darren New wrote:
>>> I've worked on lots of hardware that were "safety critical" and the
>>> software was seldom updated. 
>> 
>> Yes, because it's so hard to get right the first time if you don't do it 
>> right.
>
>That was a bit disjointed. It doesn't get updated because it's hard to 
>get the updates right if you don't follow the right process to make sure 
>it happens.

I meant that they don't often get updated because the programmers got
it right first time. Maybe I should mention that I'm not thinking
about pc based systems.
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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