Talk:Catastrophic failure

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They're the sort of things the History Channel does when not busy with their usuall Hitler-preoccupation. 68.39.174.150 03:22, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

On second thought maybe that is one itself... "LOL"! 68.39.174.150 03:23, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Um...

Is there really a point to this article? Mbarbier 07:21, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

I am currently editing a mechanical engineering stub about ultimate failure. Regrettably it still remains relatively small and unnoticed by fellow engineers. Although there are some differences between our articles I was wondering if you wanted to try and merge them together to try and create a stronger stub about failure. If you are interested either leave a post on the site ultimate failure or on my own personal page. Thank you for looking into the matter. Engl315ISU (talk) 05:19, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] About this term when applied to computers.

"The term catastrophic failure is occasionally (and erroneously) used in computer software to indicate an unexpected error from which the system cannot meaningfully recover."

Why "erroneously?" It's simply borrowing an expression from structural engineering. -- -- Boldupdater 17:50, 30 April 2008 (UTC)