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To: Joseph Pareti who wrote (115310)10/31/2000 3:37:24 AM
From: Tenchusatsu  Respond to of 186894
 
Joe, thanks for the article on Sun's "blue screen of death." Here's a quote I thought was interesting:

Sun says it has finally figured out what's wrong. It is an odd problem involving stray cosmic rays and memory chips in the flagship Enterprise server line, whose models are priced at $50,000 to more than $1 million. Yet Sun won't fix all of the servers it has sold; instead it will make repairs when it deems them necessary.

Replace "Sun" with "Intel" and watch everyone from the press to the AMDroids jump on this story like wild dogs. "Oh no, it's Pentium FDIV all over again!"

Tenchusatsu



To: Joseph Pareti who wrote (115310)10/31/2000 10:09:42 AM
From: Tony Viola  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Joe, >Mc Squealy's flavor of "blue screen of death".

IBM started using ECC memory in the 1970s for this very reason

Yes, and I should well know that, having designed the ECC logic in an IBM competitor machine, also in the 70s.

Amazing how Sun ignores proven, necessary reliability features like this. What is the saying, those that ignore history will have it come back to haunt them.

Tony


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