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From: tyc@cbnewse.att.com (felix.a.lugo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Spotted Workspace ? Why? (and BlastApp??)
Keywords: memory errors, non-parity memory, spotted display
Message-ID: <1991Apr6.205555.21974@cbnewse.att.com>
Date: 6 Apr 91 20:55:55 GMT
References: <1991Apr3.230504.27819@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1991Apr5.075135.23325@cs.ubc.ca> <1991Apr6.043551.29580@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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In article <1991Apr6.043551.29580@mp.cs.niu.edu> bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) writes:
| In article <1991Apr5.075135.23325@cs.ubc.ca> sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart Ritchie) writes:
| >In article <1991Apr3.230504.27819@mp.cs.niu.edu> bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) writes:
| >>In article <5596@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> simsong@daily-bugle.media.mit.edu (Simson L. Garfinkel) writes:
| >If software still runs, it sounds to me like the VRAM is shot.
| >After all, it is the screen that's being affected.  But I'm no
| >expert, only guessing like everyone else.
| 
|      Good point.  I wasn't thinking.  So, the VRAM is non-parity crap,
| too, huh?  What a bummer.  Is the VRAM on a 68040 board like that, too?
| I hope not because I just bought the upgrade kit a week ago (it's not
| installed yet) and it will definitely ruin my day to discover that I'm
| still going to have a toy computer instead of a real, production one.
| >
	What a load of s..t!  Do you really believe that you have a toy
	computer just because it doesn't have parity VRAM?  How many parity
	erros have you seen recently in "production" systems that cause all
	your work to get lost when the system decided that it could no longer
	continue?  Parity RAM does nothing to a system unless it contains some
	ECC logic to correct the problem.  Parity RAM only informs the system
	that some memory has gone bad.  Would you like your NeXT to shutdown
	because you have a fault in you VRAM?  I certainly would not!!!!!

| 
|                                   Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
|                                   Systems Programming
|                                   Northern Illinois University
|                                   DeKalb, Illinois 60115

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