OT-ish, Museums and MP3s Re: Museum interpretations

[bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca]

Fred Cisin wrote:

> Would it make sense to use 3, thereby giving you 24 bit wide?
> You could either use 18 of the 24, or implement some sort of ECC with the
> "extra" 6 bits

Static ram is cheap...I only need 64KB of 9 bit memory and some EEPROM for 
bootstraps.
  ECC is best with Dram since in the general case you can refresh and scrub and 
clean your memory.
Did any of the LISP machines do garbage collection with refresh?
Ben.
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