Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!claris!apple!well!ejf From: ejf@well.UUCP (Erik James Freed) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: PaRITY (was NeXT Memory - No Error Checking or Parity !) Keywords: Memory,errors,parity Message-ID: <7552@well.UUCP> Date: 3 Nov 88 20:25:37 GMT References: <549@gt-eedsp.UUCP> <7493@well.UUCP> Reply-To: ejf@well.UUCP (Erik James Freed) Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 16 In article patterso@hardees.rutgers.edu (Ross Patterson) writes: >Parity also allows your hardware to correct the error, and inform you of it >later. You *CAN* have your cake and eat it too. Systems I've worked with The point was that parity as generally implemented does *not* correct the error. It just informs you of it usually without any useful information. It would really make this machine expensive to add things like ECC. >machine. And just as a sideline, 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. I have always understood the term PC to stand for "personal computer". I think that steve would like to think that his computer is designed to be the sort of user friendly companion that the personal computer is supposed to eventually be. He did call it a "partner in thought". This sounds pretty personal to me. :-) Erik