12 Oct
2005
12 Oct
'05
8:23 a.m.
John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
Is it possible to make executable code which is
resistant to bit errors?
Say just assume X86... is it possible to write some minimal bootstrap
code that can tolerate errors in itself, but run long enough w/out
crashing the machine to decode a secondary boot loader that is padded
with error correcting code? That initial bootstrap code can be
inefficient as hell...
It is not bit errors that is the problem -- It is all the windows crappy
hardware.
Before windows you only had a few real I/O devices -- broken serial port,
broken printer port, crummy Floppy , some custiom BIOS Hard Drives and
a few other HD types. Now look at all the GUI stuff you need just to
boot..
-- John.
PS -- Is computer controled RNA by a sythnetic ORGANIC computer software
software or hardware? The X-files Cell type :)