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To: Prognosticator who wrote (34713)	8/28/2000 8:55:46 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (1) of 64865

At least Sun appear to be mea-culpa'ing and learning from the event. To the extent of even designing around it with mirrored memory modules in future server designs: outstanding! This "mirrored memory" means they will have to use 16Meg for actual 8Meg of memory (doubling up every bit). I believe that means they were never using ECC modules but simple parity modules in the first place. That would explain why the applications terminated every time a parity check detected a memory error. Since simple parity checking can only detect single bit errors, I think there is a good possibility that some data got corrupted. I think 8Meg ECC modules are quite rare so they instead went with this "mirrored memory" approach.. Of course, they will be paying thru the nose for 16Meg when only 8Meg is required. But, they likely had no choice. I mean.... we couldn't have USIII systems delayed any longer now....could we?? So, who makes this 16Meg fast reliable SRAM??? Only one company I know of. By year's end, Sun will release a mirrored memory module that should address this issue once and for all, Shoemaker added........... Sun quality???? HA! HA! LOL! What a bunch of shoemakers. THE WATSONYOUTH

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