Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!inmos!brac!davidb From: davidb@brac.inmos.co.uk (David Boreham) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: MIPS R[236]000 interrupts (was Workstation Data Integrity) Message-ID: <11276@ganymede.inmos.co.uk> Date: 19 Sep 90 17:57:18 GMT References: <6797.26d6edce@vax1.tcd.ie> <56qmo1w162w@zl2tnm.gp.govt.nz> <19875@crg5.UUCP> <19208@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1990Sep6.141040.3244@m Sender: news@inmos.co.uk Reply-To: davidb@inmos.co.uk (David Boreham) Organization: none Lines: 14 In article daveg@near.cs.caltech.edu (Dave Gillespie) writes: >I wonder, I can see single-bit errors occurring in isolation, but >how likely is it to have an exactly two-bit error? Most catastrophes >I can think of will nuke one bit or many. And if the only danger is >two statistically independent errors occuring at once in the same >word, I think a more pressing danger is that your machine might be ^^^^ AND at the same *TIME* if you're implementing scrubbing. David Boreham, INMOS Limited | mail(uk): davidb@inmos.co.uk or ukc!inmos!davidb Bristol, England | (us): uunet!inmos.com!davidb +44 454 616616 ex 547 | Internet: davidb@inmos.com