What's in my hard drive? How can I get rid of it?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 19:07:01 -0500, Jon Radel wrote:
>On 2/17/15 6:04 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 15:24:16 -0700, jd1008 wrote:
>>> A people's tribunal of highly capable software and hardware
>>> engineers is desperately needed to look into the source codes of
>>> all SW and HW designs and implementations - including the compilers
>>> and assemblers.
>> We are still free to write Assembler opcode using an hex editor, that
>> way nothing could go wrong. When I started, I didn't write opcode
>> using an hex editor, but I used an Assmbler editor that didn't
>> provide macros, this editor was close to an hex editor. There was no
>> way to correct something by inserting code.
>>
>And you expect the microcode to only implement the documented 
>instruction set with no extra goodies?  Trusting sort you are.

:D

Then we indeed need to reed every single line that is in the
RAMs/ROMs/etc..  Hahaha, I still remember how much days I needed to get
through a 2 KiB listing of Assembler on listing paper. I suspect it's
impossible to check 20 MiBs and more of software that way.