Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Does NeXT have parity/ECC protected memory?
Message-ID: <1988Oct25.180345.8888@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <16901@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 88 18:03:45 GMT

In article <16901@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> casey@CS.UCLA.EDU (Casey Leedom) writes:
>  It's been hinted at a couple of times that NeXT doesn't have any error
>detection on main memory.  Is this true?  If so, what was the rationale
>not to put it in? ...

Probably because modern memory chips are much more reliable than the 4Kb
and 16Kb clunkers that caused the rush to error correction.
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