Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: PaRITY (was NeXT Memory - No Error Checking or Parity !) Keywords: Memory,errors,parity Message-ID: <26427@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 2 Nov 88 17:07:08 GMT References: <549@gt-eedsp.UUCP> <7493@well.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 22 In article patterso@hardees.rutgers.edu (Ross Patterson) writes: >In article <7493@well.UUCP>, ejf@well.UUCP (Erik James Freed) writes: >>And parity memory in my experience just is not really that useful. >>(at least to justify the PC real estate) > >...I doubt JoBS would appreciate your calling the NeXT a PC anymore >than Bill Joy would like you to call a Sun 3/60 a PC. First off, Mr Freed was probably using PC to refer to a printed circuit board, of which there is always limited area. Secondly, not all personal computers are made by IBM. The term "PC" was in use long before IBM arrogated its meaning (cf semiannual history discussions in comp.sys.misc or somewhere (I always Kill them early)), just as the term "hacker" was in use long before the media corrupted its meaning. "PC" used to mean something that Alan Kay would like. Now it connotes something he'd probably avoid. Makers of workstations would probably feel gratified if people viewed them as personal computers, in the classical sense. -=- Zippy sez, --Bob On the road, ZIPPY is a pinhead without a purpose, but never without a POINT.