Unified Computer Diagnostics: Incorporating Hardware Narratology

Interpreting hardware signals as messages and messages as signals allows us to apply Software Narratology and software trace analysis patterns to the domain of hardware diagnostics:

Generalized trace analysis patterns and narrative extends the view of hardware-software traces and logs as temporarily ordered event sequences. The time domain is generalized to any arbitrary set such as a list of indexes or pointers or even memory itself. This gives a unification of memory and log analysis and application of Computer Narratology to memory dump analysis as well.

We call the application of methods of literary narratology to computer trace and log analysis and computer-related stories in general as Hardware-Software Narratology or simply Computer Narratology as it was originally done in Volume 3 when we first introduced Software Narratology (page 342).