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From: dfarber@UDEL-EE.ARPA
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Subject: Re:  net.digital: Is parity *really* worth it?
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Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 08:42:22 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  2 08:42:22 1984
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From:      Dave Farber 

It is a bad situation to have an error that corrupts a data base and have
no idea anything went wrong. The main benefit of parity is you know
you are in trouble and that is worth a whole lot. If you want to
recover then ecc is the route (and a heavy wallet)