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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Workstation Data Integrity
Message-ID: <1990Sep4.163619.24726@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 90 16:36:19 GMT

In article <68362@sgi.sgi.com> karsh@trifolium.sgi.com (Bruce Karsh) writes:
>... perhaps some protection is called for.  But what good is parity?
>It just replaces the system damage caused by the memory error with the
>system damage caused by a system failure caused by a catastrophic system
>crash.

A hard failure is usually preferable to a silently wrong answer.
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