I doubt the use of ROM to store election program. ROM is hard to program, expensive, low density and simply not flexible. It is a nightmare to recall 82K machines if a serious bug in the program stored in ROM is found. The program must be stored in flash (NAND or NOR).
rowel On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Pablo Manalastas <[email protected]> wrote: > > The Smartmatic PCOS computer that they propose to use for the May 2010 > elections uses uClinux, uClibC, and a program that page-scans the paper > ballots and counts the votes, all burned into ROM. Since Smartmatic is > confident enough to burn their election program into ROM, this means that > they are sure that their programs will pass the source code review provision > of RA-9369, and will count the votes correctly, barring bugs in their program. > > Read more in my Multiply blog: > > http://pmana.multiply.com/journal/item/51/Smartmatics_PHP7.2_billion_bid_is_NOT_ridiculously_low_May_31_09 > > Pablo Manalastas > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
