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by jojobas 902 days ago
That was word of mouth. This website says 5 independent computers, of which 2 use different hardware and software so as not to fail in the same fashion.

https://www.rightattitudes.com/2020/04/06/airbus-flight-cont...

I'd imagine every computer relies on redundant stick/pedal encoders, which is how a 12-way notion appeared.

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There's several subsystems that have backup functionality or piloting fallback available incase of subsystem failure, and subsystems have internal 2-weay or 3-way redundancy/voting. See eg https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/15234/how-does-...
That blog isn't very authoritative, and doesn't go into any detail at all.

> I'd imagine every computer relies on redundant stick/pedal encoders, which is how a 12-way notion appeared.

That's disingenuous at best. The lug nuts on my car aren't 20x redundant... if you randomly loosen four, catastrophic failure is possible.