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At 12:09 PM 7/19/95, Frank Deutschmann wrote: >Pretty close, but you are ignoring the (additional) complexity of any >hw/sw used to link the three computers. (Yes, this is a nit, the end result >is still that the reliability is improved!) Some time around 10 years ago, some computer manufacturer (was it HP?) introduced "self-healing" memory chips. That is, those could correct by themselves most manufacturing defects. The chips were much more complex than normal chips, but the wafer yield increased something like 300%, thus making them cheaper to manufacture them than the "normal" chips... (To me, this sounds just like the kind of idea that gets killed either by a jerk with an MBA in the accounting department and/or a twit with a BA in corporate bullshit in the marketing department - yes, this is a *FLAME* against suits)... ---============================================================--- Life is 80% showing up. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Woody allen ** Marc Dufour - [\] ACUC 6 31874 - http://WWW.CAM.ORG/~mdufour **
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