tschmidleithner

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> The ultimate and very necessary defence of a real time system against arbitrary hardware error or operator error is the organisation of a rapid procedure for restarting the entire system.

"Just putting out the plug and stick it back in" is one common way nowadays of how to get out of an unforeseen state. It has quite some history and goes at least back to the "let it crash" philosophy of Erlang. Of course this still does not work for all kind of domains, especially when one is closer to the metal. But still, we may have found a sufficiency compromise between formal verified software (and thus, higher costs) and some kind of fault-tolerant software (increased productivity).