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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
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Subject: Re: Core memory
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Date: 22 Jul 88 12:00:42 GMT
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In article <1057@garth.UUCP> smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) writes:
>Somewhat afield, I guess, unless we include ai, but if semiconductors can be
>fried by the radiation, what happens to humans?

See the latest (August) issue of Scientific American for an article on
current thought about error-correcting ribonucleatides.  The system goes
to a lot of effort to guarantee that the copy is an accurate one of the
original DNA, but very little effort into guaranteeing that the original
hasn't been changed. Interesting use of checksums. Doesn't use standard
polynomials though. I guess some people think they are too good to use
international standards.