Hi Ed,
I knew that there were means of ensuring integrity and that's why I
asked the question.
Regards,
David
On 2023-03-14 18:52, Ed Jaffe wrote:
On 3/14/2023 3:07 PM, David Spiegel wrote:
I went over to the 2nd in command VM guy and asked why I would have
to wait a week for delivery of a tape when it could he delivered
electronically in under an hour.
He had this irrational xenophobia against it and since he was the
gatekeeper, his manager wouldn't budge either.
I asked him to explain this M'shugaas (Yiddish for insanity) and he
retorted: "Ahh ... you do not understand banking. How do you know
that IBM will not flip a bit when the data is compressed/uncompressed?"
I retorted: "Even if you get a tape, how do you know the the object
code is intact?" He had no answer for this.
Both transfer mechanisms were protected by CRC (cyclic redundancy
checking)...
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