From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed May 22 11:46:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA16754 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 11:46:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from persprog.com (persprog.com [204.215.255.203]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA16738 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 11:46:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by persprog.com (8.7.5/4.10) id NAA11804; Wed, 22 May 1996 13:43:41 -0500 Received: from novell(192.2.2.201) by cerberus.ppi.com via smap (V1.3) id sma011802; Wed May 22 14:43:37 1996 Received: from NOVELL/SpoolDir by novell.persprog.com (Mercury 1.12); Wed, 22 May 96 14:39:57 +0500 Received: from SpoolDir by NOVELL (Mercury 1.12); Wed, 22 May 96 14:39:41 +0500 From: "David Alderman" Organization: Personalized Programming, Inc. To: Joe Greco , hardware@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 14:39:33 EST Subject: Re: Triton chipset with 256k cache caches 32M only? Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.31) Message-ID: <3322B213B1@novell.persprog.com> Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > From: Joe Greco > Many lines deleted... > Now, the nifty thing about ECC is that while you would not want to use it on > a daily basis, if something does happen (bad RAM with a few single bit > errors, etc), you may be able to coax the system into running long enough to > obtain replacements. Sometimes that is important. ;-) > > ... JG > That is a great idea! Now I know what I will do on servers henceforth. ====================================== When philosophy conflicts with reality, choose reality. Dave Alderman -- dave@persprog.com ======================================