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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
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Subject: Re: Workstation Data Integrity
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Date: 5 Sep 90 14:27:07 GMT
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In article <13625@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> wilker@math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) writes:
| 
| I don't remember the exact rate but I thought that with 4 megs of
| memory, one expected from alpha radiation alone one error per
| two weeks.

  I haven't seen error rates that high in any workstation or 32 bit PC.
I haven't seen a parity error in several years on nine machines with
100+ MB of memory total.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.