One of the common things that mainframes and COBOL are used for is financial systems, and that means a lot of fixed-point decimal data. So suppose you have a file containing an account number and a balance, like…
The fault-tolerance stuff does not depend on any language. If a fault happens in a CPU (for instance) while running your application, the checkpoint (pre-failure) of that CPU will be copied to a spare CPU and your…
One of the common things that mainframes and COBOL are used for is financial systems, and that means a lot of fixed-point decimal data. So suppose you have a file containing an account number and a balance, like…
The fault-tolerance stuff does not depend on any language. If a fault happens in a CPU (for instance) while running your application, the checkpoint (pre-failure) of that CPU will be copied to a spare CPU and your…