Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!David.Anderson@CMU-CS-G.ARPA From: David.Anderson@CMU-CS-G.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Is parity *really* worth it? Message-ID: <586@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 31-Jul-84 17:42:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.586 Posted: Tue Jul 31 17:42:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 00:32:54 EDT Lines: 6 The Macintosh designers decided that parity wasn't worth it, because of the board space it would consume, and it would be just another thing to go wrong. Maybe someone else knows how carefully they measured the tradeoffs. --david