Interesting! Does anyone know of a language or operating system that uses Reed–Solomon error correction on every file?<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed–Solomon_error_correction" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed–Solomon_error_correction</a><p>Or to top that, imagine a computer where the entire memory space, perhaps shared with persistent flash memory, was encoded in this manner, so that even the filesystem was protected against bit flips.<p>When I was doing Mac repair a few years back, the majority of the PowerMac G5s that came through the doors died premature deaths for two reasons: the ram was in a bad spot which caused the board to bend and crack on insertion, and the ram was non-ECC so it was notoriously difficult to isolate a bad ram chip. It was the most unreliable Mac I ever diagnosed, by perhaps an order of magnitude.<p>Contrast that with the Mac Pro, which used ECC and was so much more reliable that I don't remember seeing a single Mac Pro fail in the 3 years I was there.<p>Imagine how stable a Reed–Solomon computer would be..