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From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT Memory - No Error Checking or Parity !
Keywords: Memory,errors,parity
Message-ID: <6223@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 26 Oct 88 17:20:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: june.6223
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Reply-To: pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>[ 84Mb and only 2 parity error panics each year ]

The Eagle PC's of a while back had no parity bits -- it was their
claim that the parity bits had errors often enough that "fake" parity
errors *could* be a problem and that *real* parity errors were few
enough *not* to be a problem.

I still like the idea of getting warned when something goes wrong...

    ;-D on  ( My memory is perfac... purrfe... forgot how to spill )  Pardo
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