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Say a CPU was made the size and shape of a plasma TV. You wouldn't have to run it all at once. You could make many CPUs or logic blocks and re-route traffic to
by actionfromafar 2y ago
Say a CPU was made the size and shape of a plasma TV. You wouldn't have to run it all at once. You could make many CPUs or logic blocks and re-route traffic to hitherto unused blocks when a fault was detected.
- anyfoo 2y agoOof. I don't know much about tubes, do they always fail in ways that are reliable to detect? (E.g. I can imagine that detecting a burned out heater is easy, but I don't know what other common failure modes there are.) And even then there's a lot of effort to just make the system "switch over"... and a lot of extra real estate with technology that was already constrained by the minimum size bound of the tubes.
- actionfromafar 2y agoI was thinking pretty high level stuff, like running a quorum of CPUs or something. But it could also be a manual thing with switches on a panel. :)