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echo: locuser
to: Paul Edwards
from: Bob Lawrence
date: 1996-07-08 20:56:20
subject: ram

BL> The problem with parity RAM is that we assume one bit has
 BL> failed but none of the others did. What made that one-bit fail?
 BL> Maybe they all failed.

 PE> Nature of the beast. The 8 bits are all stored on separate
 PE> chips.

  They used to be...

Regards,
Bob
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