<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Scott Howard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott@doc.net.au">scott@doc.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">Even PC manufacturers learnt the error in their ways with using parity
memory many, many years ago. Of course they took the opposite approach
and just removed the parity. You can't get parity errors if you don't
have parity - and you can always just blame the resulting crash on
Microsoft!!</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>
<br>So if your computer crashes in the next day or two, blame the manufacturer, not Microsoft... (If you're using a Mac.. well..)</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>MS introduced a 'soft' requirement of ECC memory in PCs for OEMs to get the 'Designed for Windows' logo around the release of Vista. Don't know what happened to the requirement moving forward or if it will become mandatory.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Not sure there will be much ECC in use now PCs are 600 bucks. </div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><b>David Connors</b><font color="#C0C0C0"> </font><font color="#999999">| </font><a href="mailto:david@codify.com" target="_blank"><font color="#999999">david@codify.com</font></a><font color="#999999"> | </font><a href="http://www.codify.com" target="_blank"><font color="#999999">www.codify.com</font></a></div>
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