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by justin66 958 days ago
> Random bitflips (aka hardware that doesn't work) are a relatively new thing.

Bits flipping due to hardware that didn’t work well was what caused Xerox PARC to implement an error correcting memory for MAXC, fifty years ago.

https://gunkies.org/wiki/Maxc

> Bit flips due to buggy software was a thing though.

No kidding.