Proven technology when lives depend on it · Proposed air date:
A caller’s preference for familiar older software leads Dr. Dave to remember friends who worked on the space shuttle. He argues that apparently old computing can reflect deliberate engineering for reliability, because bleeding edge systems bring risks that are unacceptable when human lives depend on them.
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Proposed recording date: 2006-03-04. The exact broadcast date may differ.
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