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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Why are Amigaoids hell bent on proving the Amiga is better ?
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Date: 27 Jun 91 21:08:27 GMT
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In article <1991Jun27.170049.21231@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
>	Here's the thing: Game machines require only medium
>reliability.  If a game machine crashes, you lose what? Your best high
>score? If your business computer crashes, you may lose untold $$ worth
>of data.  So you guard it with things like, oh, parity RAM, so that
>you are assured that incorrect answers are not propogated. And you
>choose a vendor that has a reputation for reliability. 

Oh, you're so right, how could I have been so foolish.  ;)

Puleeeze, have you ever opened those Taiwan clones, or heck, even your
IBM with the Taiwan VGA board in it.  Half of those boards are visibly
hand traced.  And obvious noise-makers at that.

If you need to protect your data, you get dedicated hardware.  Single
bit parity is not really accurate enough.

In fact, the first thing our DB instructor said was that recovery was only
important for high end systems, on IBM-type systems you don't need to
worry about that.

Let me ask you, after a parity error hangs your system, and your DB system
has no recovery code, what are you going to do?

>can suffer, and it usually does.  (I once asked Dave Haynie, hardware
>dude of some renown, what reliability features were present in the
>Amiga, and his reply was that OFS is replete with robust features that
>made tools like DiskSalv possible.  I found it quite telling that this

If you only rely on hardware to protect you, you're hosed.  If only for
the radioactive decay found in some casing materials....

So, you're saying that IBMs are better business machines because they have
parity RAM?  You either have a system with FULL parity checking, or your
feeble attempts at covering your rear are likely to fail.

IMHO, of course :)

David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
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