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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Why one should buy parity memory for reliability?
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 15:52:18 -0700
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J Wunsch wrote:
] Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
]
] > Actually, the ceramic casings themselves were alpha sources a lot
] > of the time.
]
] That's been what i told. Did you even read through the end of my
] article?
Sorry; your article was truncated on my server, probably during
the cancel-storm.
I have looked up your original article on dejanews, and you are
correct, and go into more detail than I did.
The article on my server was truncated at:
...
| of 64 kbit RAMs. However, due to their big size, these nuclei cannot
| penetrate even moderate amounts of harder material, even a few 10 m's
| of plastics are a complete shield against them. Thus, any of our
| today's plastics IC cases is sufficient to shield even against a huge
| amount of them. The worst case were the old (and expensive) ceramics
Which seemed to not be a sentence fragment because "cermaics" was
pluralized (I did wonder at the lack of a signature, but not too
hard).
Sorry for any misunderstanding.
Regards,
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.