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From: plb@omsvax.UUCP (Phil Barrett)
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Subject: Re: MTBF of Crays.
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Date: Thu, 3-May-84 20:54:35 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  3 20:54:35 1984
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An interesting side note about Crays and error correction.
A while ago I was talking to some CDC engineers who said 
that Seymore Cray (when he worked at CDC) was absolutely
dead set against ECC of any sort. The quote I heard (probably
untrue, but it makes a good story) was "Over my dead body".
Since ECC == good (:-)), the decision was made to use ECC. 
Seymore 'died' and went to heaven and the rest is history.

Its ironic to now hear that crays are using ECC.

Since this is second (probably N-th with N approaching
aleph-null) hand, take it with a grain of salt.