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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>parity errors</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="parent-message.html" title="parent message"/><link rel="next" href="Parkinsons-Law-of-Data.html" title="Parkinson's Law of Data"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">parity errors</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="parent-message.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="Parkinsons-Law-of-Data.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="parity-errors"/><dt xmlns="" id="parity-errors"><b>parity errors</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">pl.n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 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. “<span class="quote">I need to go home and crash; I'm starting to get a lot of
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parity errors.</span>” Derives from a relatively common but nearly always
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correctable transient error in memory hardware. It predates RAM; in fact,
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this term is reported to have already have been in use in its jargon sense
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back in the 1960s when magnetic cores ruled. Parity errors can also
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afflict mass storage and serial communication lines; this is more serious
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because not always correctable.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="parent-message.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="Parkinsons-Law-of-Data.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">parent message<67></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>Parkinson's Law of Data</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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