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This paper puts forward the hypothesis that the way to design reliable computers is to design simple computers. It examines the trade-off between adding complexity to solve a potential reliability problem and the unreliability incurred due to the complexity added. Some examples of simple design are then given from IMP's fault tolerant computers.
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Liddell, D. (1994). Simple design makes reliable computers. In: Banâtre, M., Lee, P.A. (eds) Hardware and Software Architectures for Fault Tolerance. Fault Tolerance 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 774. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0020025
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