Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> 
> 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.

Actually, that's a IIci, not a IIcx :-)

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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