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parity errors
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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pl.n. Little lapses of attention or (in more severe cases) consciousness,
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usually brought on by having spent all night and most of the next day
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hacking. I need to go home and crash; I'm starting to get a lot of parity
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errors. Derives from a relatively common but nearly always correctable
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transient error in memory hardware. It predates RAM; in fact, this term is
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reported to have already have been in use in its jargon sense back in the
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1960s when magnetic cores ruled. Parity errors can also afflict mass storage
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and serial communication lines; this is more serious because not always
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correctable.
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