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From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Cray SECDED
Keywords: cray, SECDED
Message-ID: <1992@scolex>
Date: 1 Jan 89 05:03:15 GMT
References: <2496@ficc.uu.net> <8841@sequent.UUCP> <2523@ficc.uu.net> <2458@super.ORG>
Reply-To: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
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In article <2523@ficc.uu.net> karl@ficc.uu.net (karl lehenbauer #) writes:
>The Cray line has error correction/double error detection, an innovation
>(not pioneered by them) that buys a good deal more than parity detection
>alone, hence it's in there.

I'm fairly certain that the Cyber 170/760 that I worked on (designed by
Seymour himself) had SECDED.  Seymour may have done the "innovation," but
not Cray Research Inc.

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