Was FORTRAN buggy 4334

Unfortunately. It is causing a belief that what works on a TTY screen is reality. I started noticing this atbreastude about 10 years ago. It's now crept into the computer biz.

Sure. But you can't do that with hardware bugs. Reread that. Note the word HARD? It implies that no software is involved. The best you can do is defend against hardware glitches and this defense belongs in the monitor not in some test suite internal to the developer. It belongs out in the field.

Sure it's more possible. Are you really going to get on that airplane if all of its computing hard-software has only been run successsfully under a f***ing emultor?

Emulators are supposed to help shorten the development cycles of hardware; not replace the hardware. SHHESSSSHHH..this is a new definition of vapor ware. The computer biz' bit gods are good, but they aren't that good where computing doesn't need real gear somewhere underneath all the layers.

If you think I'm nuts worrying about this, wait four years. Kiddies are unaware of hardware existence; it's beginning to smell like our developers don't know about it either.

BAH