The Role of a Maintenance Processor for a General-Purpose Computer System

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn C-33, Issue 6, 1984, Pages 507-517

  Liu, T S ^a  

^a HONEYWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability; coverage; fault diagnosis; fault recovery; fault tolerance; maintenance processor; reconfiguration; reliability; serviceability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL;

EID: 0021439221     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.1984.1676474     Document Type: Article

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