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Crash-Proof Computers

by Maarten Goldstein, Dec 12, 2000 7:40am PST

Related Topics – Hardware (PC only)

It's about time. After several decades of computer use, the NASA together with some tech/software companies is finally gonna look at making computers crash-proof. Microsoft is part of the consortium yes.

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- You are aware that the VMS team is also responsible for WNT, right? : freshview

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Funny that Microsoft is involved considering that NASA uses Linux and mySQL for a great deal of their projects.

By the way , NT uses some BSD code.

Dec 13, 2000 5:49am PST

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Check out http://www.uptimes.net or specifically http://www.uptimes.net/bottom.html?show=sactive

Dec 12, 2000 3:13pm PST

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Check out http://www.uptimes.net or specifically http://www.uptimes.net/bottom.html?show=sactive : R-2-RO
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- 97 62.108.8.232 stipriaan 239 days, 12:04 0.0% (1) Windows 98 i686 Windows98 will stay up for mor : timmie

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I wonder what computer, has the highest uptime, period. I mean no reboots, no power outages, etc.

Would it be pioneer, 30 years old?

I wonder it it's anything over 20 years, etc...

Dec 12, 2000 2:02pm PST

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I wonder what computer, has the highest uptime, period. I mean no reboots, no power outages, etc. Wou : indeego
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  Pioneer spacecraft prolly have the longest uptime.... u are correct..... : OverBurN
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Nice idea, but as an anon already pointed out, it's already been proven impossible by Turing, the halting problem, etc.

Hardware defects can be found, and code can be written and audited carefully - it can get better than it is now - but it's simply not possible to have a machine that can run a given program, that will not crash.

Dec 12, 2000 11:30am PST

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    I just wrote my exam for this yesterday... Ok, Turing was a cryptographer / mathematician / computer sc : Mastiff
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      How about "close enough" to crash free? Something that still accepts and executes user commands woul... : GoofyBoy
      
      I think ideally, they would like the computer to do that itself. : stinky

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Crash proof my ass.... Never happen. Steve Bucemi said it best in Armageddon:
"Hey harry You realize were sitting on 200 lbs of rocket fuel 1 nuclear weaponm and 250 thousand moving parts made by the lowest bidder"

Nuff said.

Dec 12, 2000 10:17am PST

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This is a pipe dream. Crash proof computers will never go away, as long as programmers are human.

Dec 12, 2000 8:21am PST

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... and as a foot note to the story it states that Microsoft will be there just to observe and learn. :)

Dec 12, 2000 11:56am PST

... and as a foot note to the story it states that Microsoft will be there just to observe and learn. :) : R-2-RO

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If you think partnering with Microsoft is bad, Intel actually was going to occupy the bottom floor of one of our buildings till everybody cried out about it.

Dec 12, 2000 10:04am PST

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go microsoft! hehe.

Dec 12, 2000 9:34am PST

go microsoft! hehe. : kruel

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Yeah.. hit the anon button you dillhole *sigh*

Dec 12, 2000 9:29am PST

Yeah.. hit the anon button you dillhole *sigh* : StimpyBoy-KNoB-

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Looks like these are computers that just can't run Crash Space.

HA! FIRST POST AND A BLATANT PLUG! I RULE!

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Dec 12, 2000 7:46am PST

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Looks like these are computers that just can't run Crash Space. HA! FIRST POST AND A BLATANT PLUG! I R : [crow]
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