At 10:40 AM 8/20/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >Of course how do you know then that the ROM holding the checksum algorithm
> >didn't flake out and cause the routine to report everything is OK?

An 8-bit checksum has a 1 in 256 chance of giving a false "okay" anyhow.
But that is 256 times better than not checking at all.

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