gilgalad@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) (06/02/90)
Just so we beat this idea to death... 8-) I think that ECC would reaally be quite a waste unless it was going to be used in some sort of dedicated system. I would also think that it may not even work. The error causing agent, cited as a cosmic ray to me, would probably trigger more than one error in the same byte. Cosmic rays are tremendously energetic. The cost of single error correction is large, the cost of double error correction is obscene. I also see no point in getting error detection RAM, since all it will do is tell you that you have an error, and you would probably not be able to do anything about it (while the machine is running that is 8-) See ya, Ralph gilgalad@dip.eecs.umich.edu gilgalad@zip.eecs.umich.edu gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu Ralph_Seguin@ub.cc.umich.edu gilgalad@sparky.eecs.umich.edu USER6TUN@UMICHUB.BITNET Ralph Seguin | In order to get infinitely many monkeys to type 565 South Zeeb Rd. | something that actually makes sense, you need to Ann Arbor, MI 48103 | have infinitely many monkey editors as well. (313) 662-1506