From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Are any SIMMs cheap these day$ ? Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 14:36:19 GMT
In article <5w3w8B2w165w@techsys.mcws.fidonet.org> berk@techsys.mcws.fidonet.org (Berk Walker) writes:
>($0.02)
>Whereas you have 9/8 more failures.... some people use computers for
>real computing, where data errors may co$t alot, or lives. If the letter
>comes off of the printer with a typo, big deal, if your taxes or lunar
>landing have an error.....
People who have lunar landings to do use more than 1 computer, or if they
use parity stuff they use enough bits for error correction.
PARITY ERROR - HIT <F1> TO REBOOT
is not what you want for a lunar lander.
>- Parity is not just for the clueless -
Indeed.
Alan
iiitac@pyr.swan.ac.uk