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The original definitions of "hard error" and "soft error" were for disks and go back to the early 1970s at least. A soft error was a recoverable error that coul
by kens 3y ago
The original definitions of "hard error" and "soft error" were for disks and go back to the early 1970s at least. A soft error was a recoverable error that could be handled by re-reading the disk sector. A hard error was a permanent disk error that could not be recovered.
- seeknotfind 3y agoChecks out: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hard+error%2Csoft+error&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hard+error%2Cs...
- favorited 3y agoSeems in line with how Windows was using them: > These messages were special because they were generated from inside the I/O system