On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:08:19 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/18/2007 > at 04:55 PM, Tom Schmidt said: > >>You are describing one of the core differences between real >>mainframes and etch-a-sketch computers -- the real McCoy use parity >>for memory > >Parity is so 1950's. The real McCoy uses ECC, with logging of >single-bit failures. > >Machines without any error checking don't even qualify as >etch-a-sketch; they're just junk. >
When the IBM PC was first introduced in 1981, it was the first of the PCs with parity. Today there are only a few PC "servers" with ECC memory, but the rest have nothing. Try to find a laptop with parity or ECC memory. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
