Re: Wow! Is memory ever cheap!

Dan Hollis
2001-05-09T05:37:23Z

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Larry McVoy wrote:
> which is a text version of the paper I mentioned before. The basic
> message of the paper is that it really doesn't help much to have things
> like ECC unless you can be sure that 100% of the rest of your system
> has similar checks.

UDMA has crc, scsi has parity, pci has (i think) parity, tcpip has crc,
your cpu l1 and l2 have ecc...

Looks like similar checks are already there.

-Dan