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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Video memory as swap under FreeBSD
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Hi,

Achim Patzner wrote:
>=20
> Am 14.10.2007 um 10:24 schrieb Alexander Motin:
>=20
>> Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82:
>>> Arne Schwabe <schwabe@uni-paderborn.de> writes:
>>>> VIdeo RAM may also not be as stable as your main RAM. I mean nobody =

>>>> if a
>>>> bit flips in video ram.
>>> That may have been true fifteen years ago, but not today.
>>
>> Have the anybody ever seen ECC video RAM?
>=20
> Lots. Maybe you're just not old enough but some people can still rememb=
er
> TIGA. You could even use them as separate processor...
>=20
do you talk about the SPEA fire?

Those days, it was even possible to talk to the CEO of a company.

Erich