lorner@csuchico.edu (Lance Orner) (03/20/90)
I think that it's a neat idea that HP desided to put a checksumming program in the 48s. But does anybody know if they use the same algorythm as the trusty checksum that is used for the 28s? Would the numbers be the same? ----Lance Orner lorner @ csuchico.edu
dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen) (03/26/90)
In article <1990Mar19.203010.14701@csuchico.edu> lorner@cscihp.UUCP (Lance Orner) writes: > >I think that it's a neat idea that HP desided to put a checksumming program >in the 48s. But does anybody know if they use the same algorythm as the >trusty checksum that is used for the 28s? Would the numbers be the same? The HP-48 checksum is done in hardware, using a CRC algorithm, so the simple checksum program that has appeared on this network will NOT give the same results. The good news is that the CRC version is superior in speed as well as in its being a good hash function. Dan Allen