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From: BILLW@SRI-KL.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re:  net.digital: Is parity *really* worth it?
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Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 04:16:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 15 04:16:00 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 02:05:44 EDT
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One thing that is happening in memories these day is that the
indivdual chips are getting much larger.  What this means is
that an individual chip failure becomes catastrophic!  If you
have an IBM PC with 512K of memory using 64K chips, and one
chip goes bad (completely bad, say)., You have lost part of
your memory, and if you are technically inclined, you can
swap some chips on the board, throw some switches, and bring
your PC back up with 448K memory.  If you have a Macintosh
with 512K bytes of memory (and a 16 bit bus, remember!), your
system is now completely dead.  For this reason, EDC may become
quite valuable...

BillW