Newsgroups: comp.arch
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Workstation Data Integrity
Message-ID: <1990Aug14.180346.23691@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Aug3.204358.330@portia.Stanford.EDU> <40694@mips.mips.COM> <2399@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1990Aug10.171744.9639@zoo.toronto.edu> <2421@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 90 18:03:46 GMT

In article <2421@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>| But, but, but... virtually all MSDOS software *explicitly ignores*
>| parity errors.  
>
>  Please cite any software (at least from the top 20 best seller list)
>which does this...

As I thought I made clear, my information is secondhand.  As I probably
should have made clearer, it is also a bit old.  If the situation has
changed, I am (a) pleased, and (b) surprised. :-)
-- 
It is not possible to both understand  | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
and appreciate Intel CPUs. -D.Wolfskill|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry