Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cepu.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!akgua!sdcsvax!bmcg!cepu!scw 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 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Sep-84 07:19:55 EDT Expires: Mon, 20-Aug-84 03:00:00 EDT Reply-To: scw@cepu.UUCP (Stephen C. Woods) Organization: VA Wadsworth Med. Center; LA CA Lines: 39 *Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 14:39:38 PDT Date-Received: Tue, 14-Aug-84 11:32:07 PDT References: <692@sri-arpa.UUCP>, <1217@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 22 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"