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In article <AGLEW.89Sep11230245@chant.urbana.mcd.mot.com> aglew@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Andy-Krazy-Glew) writes:
>While working for a minicomputer company, I heard that the major
>difference between minicomputers and microcomputers was that minis did
>error detection (and occasionally correction) on major functional data
>paths, not just the bus, and micros didn't...

This is, at the very least, a revisionist definition of "minicomputer".
None of the major minis -- back in the days when the distinction was
clear -- did such detection on either the bus or the internal data paths.
If you were lucky, they did it on their memory boards, but even that was
by no means universal.
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