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From: schow@bcarh185.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: ECC
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Date: 7 May 90 21:10:41 GMT
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In article <AGLEW.90May7112551@dwarfs.csg.uiuc.edu> aglew@dwarfs.csg.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) writes:
>    Q: does anyone know of "sometimes" ECC systems?  

In our central office telephone switches, we have ECC that is sometimes
switched off. Specifically, we switch off ECC when we are running in 
"Lock-step Sync" on matched processor pair with every cycle matched for
error. (The ECC is always writen into memory, just the check is 
suppressed.)


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