XPost: sci.electronics.design   
   From: thequickbrownfox@overthelazydog.org   
      
   On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:58:03 +0200, upsidedown@downunder.com wrote:   
      
   >On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:41:17 -0500, "Arny Krueger"    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>>  ECC is a type of RAM, dumbass.   
   >>   
   >>Absolutely and totally wrong.  ECC RAM in fact does no ECC. It just provides   
   >>some extra bits that are used by the ECC circuitry in the memory controller.   
   >>   
   >>I was working on computers with ECC RAM when virtually all RAM was made out   
   >>of magnetic cores.   
   >   
   >Core memory with an extra parity plane was quite common in the 1970's,   
   >but I have not stumbled into core memories with ECC.   
      
     Mainly due to the FACT that he is an utter idiot.   
      
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