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Re:Uncovering a 30 year-old hardware bug by lutusp on Monday March 04, 2013 @03:18AM (#5317251)
> The dreaded VSP crash is caused by a metastability condition in the dram.

The "dram"? Meaning a unit of volume? : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dram_(unit)

Or did the author mean "DRAM", i.e. dynamic random access memory? Somehow I think the second meaning was intended, in which case, as an acronym, ALL CAPS is required.

Re:Uncovering a 30 year-old hardware bug by unwind on Monday March 04, 2013 @03:23AM (#5317265)
That seems to be the fault of the transcription, i.e. by whoever sat and read through the scroll text in order to enter it as a forum comment.

The scroll itself in the intro is in all-caps, i.e. all the text is shown as caps.

Also, I really think context makes it fantastically clear here that it's talking about aspects of computer hardware.

Re:Uncovering a 30 year-old hardware bug by lutusp on Monday March 04, 2013 @03:42AM (#5317312)
The author had two choices -- fix the problem at the source, or downvote the well-intentioned correcting post. I see which he chose.