Malcolm Smith pointed out:
> The key word is crash. If your computer crashes, it's a damn nuisance. If
> your plane/ferry etc crashes, it could ruin your *whole* day or be, er,
> terminal.
A computer crash is _usually_ only a nuisance of varying degree.
Search the web for the origin of the saying, "always mount a
scratch monkey".
There's a reason the Space Shuttle has five different computers,
rather than a single one. (Okay, more than one reason, but you
get the point.)
Though, oddly enough, the situations where a computer crash is
likely to be terminal don't usually happen at a terminal...
-- Glenn
