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- From: ken@sugra.uucp (Kenneth Ng)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: What kind of computers are in the shuttle?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.043939.11974@sugra.uucp>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 04:39:39 GMT
- References: <1992Nov14.165511.23013@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU: <BxqDD5.Arw@zoo.toronto.edu> <18741@ksr.com>
- Organization: Private Computer, Totowa, NJ
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- In article <18741@ksr.com: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) writes:
- :Rad-hard SRAM, 50 bits of ECC for each 32 bits of memory, *and* a background
- :scrub cycle every two seconds. They didn't buy this at "BACK OF THE TRUCK
- :PEECEES, LIMITED", nosir!
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- Good grief, 50 bits ECC for 32 bits of memory? How many bits wrong can it
- correct and detect?
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- Kenneth Ng
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