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Hardware issues that cause bitflips like that one famous issue[1] with Sun servers in ~2000 (supposedly caused by radioactive isotopes in IBM manufactures SRAM
by wolf550e 5y ago
Hardware issues that cause bitflips like that one famous issue[1] with Sun servers in ~2000 (supposedly caused by radioactive isotopes in IBM manufactures SRAM chips) are often called "cosmic rays".
1 - https://www.computerworld.com/article/2585216/mcnealy-blames-ibm-for-sun-s-server-memory-flaws.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2585216/mcnealy-blames...
- gbrown_ 5y ago> are often called "cosmic rays". No! This exact issue is a classic example because at one point the fault was attributed to cosmic rays by Sun before the true cause came to light. As another commenter has said, terminology matters.