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From: tgingric@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Tyler S Gingrich)
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Subject: Re: memory (was: slab vs. cube and $$)
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Date: 29 Nov 90 16:10:41 GMT
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In article <12081@life.ai.mit.edu> caroma@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Carl R. Manning) writes:
>In article <1990Nov28.191405.25218@mp.cs.niu.edu> bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) writes:
>>     Whether they have 8MB, 12MB, or even more, they'll be throwing those
>>SIMMs away and replacing them as soon as they can afford to when they
>>discover NeXT has stuck them with nMBx8 SIMMs rather than nMBx9's.  Jeesh.
>>Nonparity memory was obsoleted in the 1950's.
>
>Memory is cheap; add a few more bits and you can have ECC error
>correction of single bit errors.  Perhaps futures NeXTs can be
>designed for people or servers who need this much reliability, at
>least as an option.  I would think that this security could be a good
>selling point -- look at how 4wd cars and anti-lock brakes are selling
>these days.
>


You can get ANY of the Next computers with Parity memory.  The additional
cost (list prices) is $500 on Mono systems & $1000 on Color systems.

Also, you can only order 16Mb or 32Mb parity memory systems.  This increases
the base price for any of the systems.

Tyler