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To: Saturn V who wrote (134454)5/8/2001 7:49:15 PM
From: Tony Viola  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
So, the "software patch which would
do "cache-scrubbing" sounds like it was made up by someone. I remember the mirrored cache fix that Ravi's article referenced. There used to be a thing called Mainstore Patrole in some large machines that went around in the background and corrected soft errors, but I think it used the ECC hardware itself.
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