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From: seifert@ihuxl.UUCP (D.A. Seifert)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Is parity *really* worth it?
Message-ID: <1281@ihuxl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 15:35:49 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  7 15:35:49 1984
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On a mini-based ATE system which I won't embarrass by giving
the name of here, parity was quite handy.  Not for the RAM, mind you,
for the hard disks.  Anytime I saw a parity error from a disk I
jumped on the phone to maintainance and suggested that they clean
the heads before we had a crash.  Parity made a nice early
warning system.  Would have been nice if they had had some decent
software. And some decent hardware.  Maybe someday I'll manage to forget.

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