What's the best way to minimize the need of run time checks?

[Gregory Ewing]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> Stray gamma rays flipping
> bits in memory (though a bit harder to do, considering the firmware was in
> some hard-wired mess of core,

I think the RAM was core too, so pretty much immune to
gamma rays as well (at least at any intensity that wouldn't
instantly kill the crew), and non-volatile.

-- 
Greg