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To: Paul Engel who wrote (83663)	6/17/1999 1:43:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 186894

Paul, Did Dirk Meyer say the K7 was "soft error" free - or haven't they tested it yet ? Oddly enough, that topic did not come up in the discussion. Scumbria

To: Paul Engel who wrote (83663)	6/17/1999 1:45:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: "SCUMbria - Did Dirk Meyer say the K7 was "soft error" free - or haven't they tested it yet ?" Deja vu all over again. Didn't Gordon Moore first identify this as a source of errors in DRAMs? EP

To: Paul Engel who wrote (83663)	6/17/1999 1:56:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

"We care about this because it can cause errors or even worse, it can disable your computer system," said Changhong Dai, project leader for Intel's Technology CAD Division, in Santa Clara, Calif. "Worst, are the silent errors that affect information in a computer system that go without being noticed." My employer makes life-critical commercial avionics systems. In our latest systems the computers are based on dual processors running in lock-step mode. Circuitry checks the results of each calculation every clock and shuts down the computer when differing results are detected, handing control to a redundant system. Maybe we can convince server manufacturers that they need pairs of processors to detect errors, or even triples to allow voting instead of shutdown... $-)