[geeks] computer room gallery 8-)

Peter L. Wargo geeks at sunhelp.org
Sat Jan 5 01:37:51 CST 2002


On Friday, January 4, 2002, at 11:29 PM, Eric Dittman wrote:
>
> Lack of planning ahead is why 8088-based DOS systems have parity error
> detection and Pentium 4 Wintel systems have memory error detection and/
> or correction only as an extra-cost option.

Actually, poor planning sums up most of the computer industry's woes.  
The rest can be covered by Microsoft. :-)

-pete



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