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Date:      Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:39:02 -0800
From:      Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com>
To:        Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com>
Cc:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, Michael VanLoon <MichaelV@edifecs.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Lance Costanzo <lance@costanzo.net>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ECC RAM useless with FreeBSD? 
Message-ID:  <59429.946492742@pinhead.parag.codegen.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com>  of "Wed, 29 Dec 1999 12:57:49 EST." <386A4B9D.A9F89749@echidna.com> 

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On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 12:57:49 EST, Graeme Tait wrote:
>
>Some memory errors are transient, radiation-induced events. 
>[..] As an extreme case, I believe that
>laptops used in orbit on the Space Shuttle crash of order once a day from
>radiation events. [...]

Just out of curiosity, how do they know that their laptops are crashing
due to radiation events and not just Windows?


	-- Parag Patel


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