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From: scw@cepu.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: The BUG lives on, and on, and on...
Message-ID: <331@cepu.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 12:37:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: cepu.331
Posted: Wed Aug 15 12:37:06 1984
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Reply-To: scw@cepu.UUCP (Stephen C. Woods)
Organization: VA Wadsworth Med. Center; LA CA
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	Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 14:39:38 PDT
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	Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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	is, but you cannot be sure of the memory 
	anymore, so trying to save portions of it will just cause grief.

	Remember that memory failures are rarely just one address affected,
	most are caused by power surges, ESD, and other similar events.

	EDC is better, but not at all perfect, and for the cost isn't worth
	it in my book. Now fault tolerence is entirely a different story....

						-Jim Wall
						!amd!fortune!wall


-- 
Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology)
uucp:	{ {ihnp4, uiucdcs}!bradley, hao, trwrb, sdcsvax!bmcg}!cepu!scw
ARPA: cepu!scw@ucla-cs CORRECTED location: N 34 3' 9.1" W 118 27' 4.3"