Griff Miller <griff.miller@positron.com> writes:

> ECC vs. non-ECC was being discussed. Have Suns always used ECC, or is this
> a new development?

Either always, or for a very very long time

I ask because I had the impression that one of the things
> that would have prevented or mitigated the 400MHz E450 debacle is ECC memory.
>
> I know that can't be right, because that problem wasn't the memory, but something
> to do with the ecache. But I seem to remember something about ECC in that
> discussion. Maybe it was that the ecache wasn't ECC ?

That's it.

>
> Hmm, if it doesn't slow the machine down, and doesn't make it drastically
> more expensive, I'd want ECC even in a PC. I like solid machines.

It was too much of a price premium back when 10% extra cost in memory
made an appreciable different to total purchase price. Now it doesn't,
but it's too late, the majority of the PC crowd don't use it and don't
care.

Chris
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