[rescue] ECC [was: Re: WOT: Ebay changes to IBM from Sun E10K servers?]

[Frank Van Damme]

On Tuesday 08 July 2003 22:21, Scott Newell wrote:
> Guess ECC memory is pretty handy at times, huh?  ;-)
>
>
> I wonder...every once in a while I run across a discussion of what
> qualifies as a workstation vs. a personal computer'.  How about the ability
> to use ECC memory?  I rarely see lower end FeeCee class machines with ECC
> memory, yet it seems quite common on the Sun, SGI, IBM, and HP iron.

The omission of crap architectures like shared PCI busses seems a good guess
to me.

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