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From: bron@bronze.SGI.COM (Bron Campbell Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Cray Quotations
Summary: Your nerdishness is showing ...
Message-ID: <23965@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 23 Dec 88 18:50:10 GMT
References: <2496@ficc.uu.net> <8841@sequent.UUCP> <4148@watvlsi.waterloo.edu>
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In article <4148@watvlsi.waterloo.edu>, smcmahon@watvlsi.waterloo.edu (Scott H. McMahon) writes:
> In article <8841@sequent.UUCP> rgb@sequent.UUCP (Bob Bond) writes:
> >I have heard "Parity is for farmers" attributed to Cray.
> >Does anyone know if this is accurate?
> 
> He believed that Seymour meant that parity is just the first line
> of defence and that the whole system should be made super reliable.
> Those who rely soley on parity are "farmers".

Sorry.  "Parity" is a term used in the U.S. regarding government
price supports for farm goods.  Thus, this is actually a pretty good
pun.

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Bron Campbell Nelson
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