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List:       eros-arch
Subject:    Re: [eros-arch] Re: fail fast
From:       "Jonathan S. Shapiro" <shap () eros-os ! org>
Date:       2005-02-04 17:22:46
Message-ID: 1107537766.8022.56.camel () mikado ! cs ! jhu ! edu
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On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 09:03 -0800, Charles Landau wrote:
> >This is a widely quoted hypothesis. It originated at Tandem under the
> >heading of "fail fast".
> 
> When I worked at Tandem, "fail fast" was not a hypothesis about the 
> way systems work. It was a design philosophy.

Yes indeed. This morphing of the term can be traced through a bunch of
the early research reports (the tan booklets) by Gray et al.

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