“‘Is software reliability important? Ask your grandma,’ says
operating system guru Dr Andrew Tanenbaum.“When consumers go to buy an electrical appliance such as a TV
or stereo they expect to bring it home, plug it in and see it work.
And it is exactly what happens–for years on end. But not so with
computers, even though it should, says Tanenbaum, author and
Professor of Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit in
Holland…”
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