Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!aurora!labrea!decwrl!pyramid!voder!apple!bcase From: bcase@apple.UUCP (Brian Case) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.arch Subject: Re: Double-bit errors and ECC memory Message-ID: <6249@apple.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 16:21:19 EDT Article-I.D.: apple.6249 Posted: Wed Sep 16 16:21:19 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 11:52:28 EDT References: <1184@itm.UUCP> <797@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> <2891@phri.UUCP> <7319@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <8587@utzoo.UUCP> Reply-To: bcase@apple.UUCP (Brian Case) Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA Lines: 8 Xref: mnetor comp.unix.wizards:4284 comp.arch:2210 In article <8587@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: >Clearly, what we need, urgently, is ECC on the damn memory chips. There >have already been mutterings about this, but no commercial products as >far as I know. Micron Technology was releasing information about just such a DRAM years ago (maybe 2? 1? 3?), at least to the trade press. I don't know if they ever shipped any.