Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu!lilja From: lilja@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Parity in Internal Data Paths of Pr Message-ID: <43700055@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> Date: 12 Sep 89 15:20:00 GMT References: <124311@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Lines: 5 Nf-ID: #R:sun.Eng.Sun.COM:124311:uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu:43700055:000:238 Nf-From: uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu!lilja Sep 12 10:20:00 1989 Also check out the fault-tolerant machines. For instance, I know that the Tandem Computers machines carry parity through almost all of the internal data paths. In order to be fault tolerant, you need to know when a fault has happened.