Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 03:29:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pierre Phaneuf <pp AT 55-174 DOT hy DOT cgocable DOT ca>
To: OpenDOS Developer Mailing List <opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Usage of directory entries
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On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Alaric B. Williams wrote:

> Last Wednesday, I visited Barclaycard's development center in Northampton.
> Barclaycard is one of the biggest credit card companies in the UK, a division
> of Barclays Bank. Anyway, they use a mix of NT and UNIX servers on 
> Compaq hardware. The network manager told me that the server not only
> defragments itself, it immediately recommends replacement of SIMMs or
> hard disks that start to show intermittent errors. I am vindicated :-)

Compaq and some other brand names (Digital and HP comes to mind) have
pretty fancy software and hardware to detect errors and such things... I
guess it uses features of ECC SIMMs and intelligent SCSI controllers...

Pierre Phaneuf