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by ashvardanian 913 days ago
Remarkable comparison! I'm surprised it had only one parity bit per 15-bit word. Even on Earth today we keep two parity bits per 8-bit word in most of our servers.

> IBM estimated in 1996 that one error per month per 256 MiB of RAM was expected for a desktop computer.

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