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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com>
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On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote:

...
> I sure miss minicomputers with real memory controllers with memory 
> address registers that latch parity errors and report the address.
> I sure miss BSD on a Vax that reported the ECC location and correction bits...

  Triton II based boards support ECC or parity checks.  But you need
parity memory too, which costs a bit more, and some suppliers don't have
it commonly available.

Tom