Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 22:03:34 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Parity Ram Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971026220237.19711D-100000@server.local.sunyit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971026173258.26745H-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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> > Do you know anything of Richard Hamming's assertion that parity memory > > (the old fashioned even/odd type) is-a-bad -thing in large > > configurations? > > I think it bullshit. I've never heard of this before. Nor have you in > the two times you've mentioned it, actually stated what is supposed to be > so bad about it. more bits means more chance of error even if they are "error-correcting" bits?
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