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From: geff@iastate.edu (Underwood Geoffrey Dale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: parity memory
Summary: I am unconvinced
Keywords: parity, data integrity, ECC
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.155418.23293@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 90 15:54:18 GMT
References: <1990Dec5.005831.30208@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1990Dec5.140619.7948@news.iastate.edu> <1990Dec5.233830.19865@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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In article <1990Dec5.233830.19865@mp.cs.niu.edu> bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) writes:
>In article <1990Dec5.140619.7948@news.iastate.edu> geff@iastate.edu (Underwood Geoffrey Dale) writes:
>>In article <1990Dec5.005831.30208@mp.cs.niu.edu>,
>>	bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) writes:
>>>     [a claim about the value of parity memory]
>>	[I dispute his claim.]
>	[He reiterates.]
>>
>>PS:  Please, followup _only_ to alt.religion.computers.  This really has
>>nothing to do with NeXT.
>
>     It has everything to do with NeXT.  How on earth could you have
>missed *that*?
	I missed it because it wasn't there.  The value of parity memory has
no more significance on the NeXT than it does on any other machine.
	You are making a claim of the form "Any person who does not use
computer technology X is a moron," which is the sort of thing
alt.religion.computers was created to protect other newsgroups from.

>                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
>                                  Systems Programming
>                                  Northern Illinois University
>                                  DeKalb, Illinois 60115
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		Geff Underwood
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