11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
6:29 a.m.
Josh Dersch wrote:
The explanation at the time was that one of the operators put a zero
into a database field he shouldn't have, which caused a divide-by-zero
problem which led to a buffer overrun which cascaded to all of the
workstations on the network.
Peace... Sridhar
Apparently.
Go look up the news archives for the Yorktown story.
Read the facts before you make assumptions and accuse people of not
knowing what they're talking about just because you don't like what
they're saying.
I've never seen an explanation of what the failure actually was, just
lots of articles stating that Windows NT was being used as the OS and
-something- went wrong. It could just as easily have been buggy client
software that crashed.