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I want the hardware to protect me perhaps with a key or handle or something. Talking to the hardware: Give me a block of memory that I can append to the end of. Another piece of code: Allow me to access that other block for read only. Each piece of software has some sort of identification. Then the hardware throws an interrupt if a piece of software uses some memory incorrectly.

I imagine you may know a lot about this, but what OS/machine were they using to develop it? PDP-11?, CPM? What editors did they use? Line editors? Which machines did they use to test on? Most drives and even RAM was unreliable back then and everything was small. I imagine there were plenty of obstacles back then. I remember using CPM where floppy disks had to be swapped between the editor and compiler, and your program may fit on another floppy disk.

The magnet is usually used as a mitigator to turn off the device in case the device is doing something wrong like producing pulses too fast. There is typically RF communication that can communicate to the device and can often be used to turn the magnet detection off, which means that the device will not quit working when a magnet is detected. This was used in the past for electric trains or other large magnets such as in factories.

The magnet is usually used as a mitigator to turn off the device in case the device is doing something wrong like producing pulses too fast. There is typically RF communication that can communicate to the device and can often be used to turn the magnet detection off, which means that the device will not quit working when a magnet is detected.

There is the mypy static type checker that works very well with Python. It works with the typing module that allows unions of types, and other methods. Using the --disallow-untyped-defs command line argument provides more checking. A function prototype could look like the following where the str and int are the types.

def strlen(check_str:str) -> int:

When I was a kid I used an erector set to make a car that moved directly into the wind using a similar technique. Many people don't think that is possible either, but with proper gearing, it works fine.