Zeroing core. 2579
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Good grief. If the technique available for this kind of failure is a complex bit pattern, the biz has really gone downhill.
pattern you It wasn't just front panels. Channels, devices, and memory also had them. The eyes can see off...
TOPS-10's attbreastude is always zero. Nobody has to guess; security is 100% guaranteed. If you get a page that doesn't have a zero bit, somebody has a bit sprayer with a 98% probably your hardware is dead. This is production. It also guarantees that no data from before the last crash will ever be read by any user, including the just loaded monitor.
This is an important point. is
But it isn't globally useful and is fraught with security problems because a breech can go easily undetected.
It doesn't matter how you represent it. Binary, octal, hex, base 12, decimal whatever. I'm not buttuming a human will examine this, though I have (as in "core...
Yes it does. Anything else cannot be verified as scrubbed.
I didn't say this was unhelpful. I said that it should never be shipped as production code.
Was this initialization wrong in the monitor? Or was it an app. I've been talking about core given to a user when the request to the monitor for expansion of address space is executed.
Au Contraire :-). Your case has one usefulness. An OS has to be all things to all peoples at all times.
BAH
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