egyp7 on Nostr: TIL about [Therac-25](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25), a radiation therapy ...
TIL about [Therac-25](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25), a radiation therapy machine that killed at least five people in the 1980s.
"Because of concurrent programming errors (also known as race conditions), it sometimes gave its patients radiation doses that were hundreds of times greater than normal, resulting in death or serious injury."
"Because of concurrent programming errors (also known as race conditions), it sometimes gave its patients radiation doses that were hundreds of times greater than normal, resulting in death or serious injury."