At 10:39 AM 11/11/97, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
>was telling me how some RAM went bad one night on the system, and HP-UX
>detected the fact, automatically sectioned it out, and rebooted. Supposedly
>the next version of HP-UX will be able to handle the problem without even
>having to reboot. Can we support cool stuff like that? I'm guessing that. . .

A *big* problem on Mac's is that we don't even use parity memory.  We have
no way to even detect an error like that, much less recover from it.  It is
worth noting that memory chip technology has evolved to a point where the
soft errors detected by parity and ECC checks are uncommon now.

The exceptions I know of are the IIfx (surprise!) and a few models of IIcx.
The latter requres an extra chip on the motherboard, which is usually
missing.  I don't think there were any others.

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