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On Building Systems That Will Fail (1991)

ring Lecture Paper On Building Systems That Will Fail Fernando J. Corbató It is an honor and a pleasure to accept the Alan Turing Award.

And they offer great opportunities for creative improvisation, thereby adding zest to the sport of driving.One of the most effective strategies is for a driver when approaching a rotary to rigidly fix his head staring forward, of course, secretly using peripheral vision to the limit. The previous generation of vacuum tubes was simply too unreliable for sustained real-time operation and, of course, large disk files were crucial for the central storage of user programs and data. In particular, we were misled by our earlier successes with previous systems such as CTSS, where we were able to build them "brick-by-brick," incrementally adding ideas to a large base of already working software.We also were embarrassed by our inability to set and meet accurate schedules for completion of the different phases of the project.

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