Kim G. S. \yhus wrote:

> It could of course be interesting to make the memory correcting system
> work, but it is the chicken and egg problem: no chichen & no egg,
> can't compile, probably because of faulty memory, and therefore
> can't check if it is a memory problem, or make kernel errordetecting.

The DECstation/system 2100, 3100, 5000/1xx and 5000/xx do not have ECC
memory.  Like PCs (well, older PCs :-) they can detect single-bit
errors, but they cannot correct them.

So with a 3100 that avenue isn't a lot of help to you either :-(
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David Burren