Reply to post: Re: Degrees of Obsolescence

US nuke arsenal runs on 1970s IBM 'puter waving 8-inch floppies

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Re: Degrees of Obsolescence

"When a catastrophic core-dump can take the mainframe down and cost you roughly $6m per hour (in early 90's money) you tend to be a bit careful about what you load.."

But not, seemingly, about a usage that could lead to an error of 1000 one way or 1000000 the other way. The rest of the world uses SI symbols, using m or M for 1000 is rather high risk.

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