mjl@ritcv.UUCP (05/05/84)
The quote I heard attributed to Seymour Cray had to do with the use of
parity bits in the old CDC6600 memory subsystem. Supposedly Cray
dismissed the idea out of hand, saying:
Parity is for farmers.
Well, at least that's the way I heard it.
By the way, this came to haunt us when I was in graduate school. We
had a CDC6400 (sort of a poor man's 6600), and one of the data lines
between the periperal processors and main memory went on the fritz. It
was VERY difficult to isolate.
Mike Lutz
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