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>off-the-shelf processor that has hardware support for doing that kind of cross-checking on every instruction.

it is usually done with COTS CPU by either running the CPUs in lockstep (the simpler early generations of CPU) or by inserting hardware checkpoints at various points like branches, by number of instructions, etc. A recent such commercial system was the triple Itanium from Tandem/NonStop(HP).




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