For a brief period, the Windows kernel tried to deal with gamma rays

Re:For a brief period, the Windows kernel tried to deal with... by trhway on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @04:54PM (#18498166)

>the rate at which bitflips are caused by gamma rays is absolutely dwarfed by the rate at which bitflips are caused by manufacturing defects.

back in USSR/Russia gamma rays and aliens were not-an-issue compare to the extremely low reliability of USSR/Russia hardware. The military hardware back then (and some telco hardware built in Russia in 199x (some even for export into Western countries!)) was built as triplicate systems - i.e. primitive quorum/consensus computing.

Similarly, as far as i heard back then, due to low reliability of Itanium especially in the beginning, the Itanium based Tandems were also available as "Tridems".

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Re:For a brief period, the Windows kernel tried to deal with... by toomanybeersies on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @08:22PM (#18499472)

Except for the case in the USSR when gamma rays were an issue at a train depot computer system due to radioactive cows from near Chernobyl: http://www.jakepoz.com/debugging-behind-the-iron-curtain/

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