PROCESS FOR A FAULT-TOLERANT DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM WITH ERROR DETECTION AND RESISTANCE TO FAULT PROPAGATION

A process for assuring that the individual computational elements of a fault-tolerant computer system have the same view of the external world when applied in applications where input data representations of the same quantity may have slight variations without being incorrect. The process transmits data between each of the computational elements through circuitry utilizing transmitters and receivers, and provides a check as to the accuracy of each such transmission, resulting in each computational element either having the same plurality of data as each other computational element, or a representation that a transmission was faulty.