On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 11:09:16AM -0600, John Payson wrote:

> user may be somewhat confused when his product shows bogus
> numbers on the display, but that's better than having it
> go totally bonkers.

I disagree strongly with that - it's far better IMHO for the user
to know the device has failed (or for a watchdog reset to occur)
than for it to malfunction in a subtle manner. Or to put it another
way, a device should either work or not, "sort-of" working is far
more dangerous. I just don't understand how you could believe that
giving a wrong answer is preferable to giving no answer at all.

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