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From: bkliewer@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Bradley Dyck Kliewer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Re: NeXT Memory - No Error Checking or Parity !
Message-ID: <15877@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 88 12:38:13 GMT
References: <1429@cpoint.UUCP> <680002@hpcuhc.HP.COM>
Reply-To: bkliewer@iuvax.UUCP (Bradley Dyck Kliewer)
Organization: Indiana University CSCI, Bloomington
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In article <680002@hpcuhc.HP.COM> edwardm@hpcuhc.HP.COM (Edward McClanahan) writes:
>If all these concerns are valid, where are all the ECC memory add-on boards?
>Also, which NeXT competitors use ECC memory?
Well, there's always the Orchid ECCell board (which I have in my IBM AT).
But, it's not the hottest seller on the market, and as far as I know, they
don't have a Micro Channel or 32-bit version of the card.  It would appear
that end-users don't think error correction is important (whether this
is simply over-confidence in technology is hard to say).  If I remember
correctly, there is little price difference between the Orchid and similar
(non-ECC) cards, so I don't think price is the motivating factor here 
assuming RAM prices become reasonable again, which they surely will.

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