OT: Mercury (Was: BBS software for the PDP 11)

[Jon Elson]

On 05/23/2017 11:55 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote:
>> The Wikipedia article on Dr. Wetterhahn seems to indicate
>> this went a lot slower than we were told in the seminar.
>> Not sure who to trust, there.
> The NEJM article seems to say it was also not a precipitous decline.
>
OK, then I guess the people who gave our seminar either 
misremembered the situation or embellished it.
Still, pretty horrific situation when a highly skilled 
person thinks they are doing everything right, and a couple 
drops of something kills them.

Jon