Re: IBM PC prehistory

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1990 22:52

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In article <GNB.90Jan3115709@baby.bby.oz.au> gnb@bby.oz.au (Gregory N. Bond) writes:
>Suns with ECC print a diag when correcting; I have never seen an
>uncorrectable error.

In general, memory chips have gotten spectacularly more reliable since
the Bad Old Days of the 16Kb RAMs that got everyone very interested in
ECC and suchlike.
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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: IBM PC prehistory
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