Notifications
Clear all
Topic starter
2022-02-14 4:37 pm
@binaryrhyme I think your idea has merit IF the use case warrants. Cost is major difference. I used to work with a very special computer called a Stratus Fault tolerant. The components were pair and spare. That means the cpu was twinned, outputs were compared and if different, a second set of twins were swapped in. The computer called home and a taxi would show up with new CPU board the next day. An office worker could easily install the board as there was a big red light on the failed board. Eventually they moved away from that 4x cost model and went to a n+1 type. Another thing they did was to under clock the CPU's, IIRC the original was 8MHZ Motorola 68000 chips.
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
My personal scorecard is now 1 PC hardware fix (circa 1982), 1 open source fix (at age 82), and 2 zero day bugs in a major OS.
Biny reacted
2022-02-14 4:41 pm
@ronalex4203 I did some programming on the 68000. Great chip. I've done some mil-spec software work for the Canadian DOD, and the software is structured similarly. A lot of meta-monitoring and single point of failure reduction. Cool.
I edit my posts to fix typos, correct grammar, or improve clarity. On-screen keyboards are evil.
2022-02-14 7:53 pm
@binaryrhyme. .. Sounds like a a project to pursue based upon the complexity of the system you are trying to implement.
LouisR
Duce robot and Biny reacted
Page 2 / 2
Prev