fwb@siemens.UUCP (11/06/86)
> This is silly. Broken computers don't give wrong answers. They crash, > or they log soft errors, or they act flaky. It is almost impossible to > imagine a hardware fault that would have no visible effect other than > to make the 'value' (whatever it may be) of the output wrong. Cheap computers without memory parity checking could have a soft memory error which would make a data value wrong without crashing the computer, logging soft errors, or acting flaky. Of course, nobody uses a computer without error detection, do they? Do you disable parity checking on the plug-in memory boards for your PC? ----------------------------------------------------- Frederic W. Brehm (ihnp4!princeton!siemens!fwb) Siemens Research and Technology Laboratories 105 College Road East Princeton, NJ 08540 (609) 734-3336