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The fault tolerant approach to building a reliable system acknowledges that perfection is impossible (or at best, very expensive) and therefore tries to cope with the consequences of residual defects within the system. Fault tolerance has an established role in detecting and masking component faults in hardware systems, but has also been advocated as a defence against deficiencies of design. This paper argues, in question and answer format, the case for adopting design fault tolerance techniques in practical systems.
Author(s): Anderson T
Series Editor(s): Elphick, MJ
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: Computing Laboratory Technical Report Series
Year: 1985
Pages: 9
Print publication date: 01/03/1985
Source Publication Date: March 1985
Report Number: 196
Institution: Computing Laboratory, The University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
