Martin Read wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >In the old days computers would use ECC ram throughout. > > ECC (in the strict sense) has never been ubiquitous. At one time every computer I interfaced with had ECC. It was very popular with me and everyone else I knew. :-) > Parity was quite common in certain timeframes, but parity won't stop your > system crashing if you get bitflips - it'll just make it crash > *immediately*. Parity would at least provide for better error messages and diagnosibility. I just tossed out a bad one year old 4G 204 pin ram just TODAY that caused really wierd errors on the system. I pulled it and ran memtest86 on it in another system and it threw errors on an overnight run fortunately confirming the problem. Bob
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