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by noir_lord 4359 days ago
Definitely not forgotten, I wrote an essay on software safety when I was at college (not Uni, UK meaning) and the Therac 25 was a big chunk of it.

The research I did has always stuck with me because of the suffering the patients where exposed to combined with a company attitude of "admit only what we are forced to so we don't hurt sales".

Nothing I write is safety critical (though it was a field I was fascinated with when I was younger) though so I can sleep at night.