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From: rcb@rti-sel.UUCP (Random)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Shipments of uVAX II resume after NEC component replaced
Message-ID: <432@rti-sel.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 09:33:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: rti-sel.432
Posted: Mon Sep 30 09:33:16 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 3-Oct-85 03:42:41 EDT
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Summary: 

In article <4406@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
>(From 9/23/85 Electronics)
>
>	DEC's Ultrix was at first thought to be at fault because the
>failure occurred when the uVAX was running under that operating
>system, but did not occur under the VMS operating system. However, VMS
>in effect masked the error because it regularly writes to all memory
>chips as part of normal operation.

Anyone know where they got this information. I work on VMS almost exclusively
and I have never heard of this business of writing to all memory locations
regularly. Any information about this or is "Electronics" just totally
confused.

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