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Re:Mill Computing in 2017 by Taniwha on Thursday January 12, 2017 @02:36PM (#13385355)
this is not a new idea - Burroughs old CPUs B6700/etc did this - system integrity depended on the tool chain always making safe code - I remember linker (aka binder) bugs bringing down weekly poayroll on our multitasking system.

It also meant that compiler development essentially required your own multi-million dollar mainframe - there weren't a lot of languages available.

You couldn't safely import code from another machine since anyone could write any bitstream to a tape.

The 6700 was a great old machine .... but this bit sucked.

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