COMP SCI 537 Midterm: CS 537 UW Madison 10 Spring Mid
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Please put your name and student id on this page, and just your student id (but not your name) on every other page. So i can grade the exam without knowing who you are, of course. You are about to take an exam in which some memory has gone bad. Don"t worry, it"s not your memory i am talking about (well, at least, i hope not!). Rather, it"s the computer"s memory, in a new pc from iron systems. As it turns out, the iron systems pc has cheap, unreliable memory, in which a bit occasionally gets ipped. Ip takes one single bit in the system memory and changes it to the opposite of its current value, thus turning a 0 into a 1, or a 1 into a 0. As you can imagine, this makes the os of the system, which stores a lot of its important data in memory, not behave correctly (sometimes).
