Word: processors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subject both to intimidation (one poultry inspector was pushed into a plucking machine) and to bribes (money, girls, or all the meat they can eat). As a result, the report charges, they routinely approve "4D" animals-dead, dying, diseased or disabled-for processing. In Massachusetts, a state-inspected processor was permitted to salvage cancerous tumors cut from sick cattle and sell them as "brains" or "sweetbreads" to Boston supermarkets. What makes such horror stories worth chronicling, the Raiders say, is the Agriculture Department's plans to turn its inspection duties over to state agencies...
...really remarkable feature of Avižienis' brainchild is a specially gifted unit dubbed TARP (for Test And Repair Processor). Like a zealous office manager always peering over the shoulders of his clerks, TARP can almost instantly spot errors, determine who has made them, and take steps to discipline or replace the wrongdoer. It constantly monitors the specially coded messages -or interoffice memos, as Avižienis calls them-that pass between the units, and immediately reacts to deviations from normal in the computer chatter. "It's as if a person were to start mispronouncing or slurring words...