I was thinking of 386 era computers and strictly speaking it was just parity RAM, not ECC. Which often led to annoyances when a single parity error would cause your whole computer to halt.
Wikipedia says "By the mid-1990s, most DRAM had dropped parity checking as manufacturers felt confident that it was no longer necessary.". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_parity
I'd love to read a technical deep dive on RAM reliability over time. You'd think with increasing memory cell density and overall larger RAM the number of absolute errors on a desktop computer would be going up over time.
Wikipedia says "By the mid-1990s, most DRAM had dropped parity checking as manufacturers felt confident that it was no longer necessary.". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_parity
I'd love to read a technical deep dive on RAM reliability over time. You'd think with increasing memory cell density and overall larger RAM the number of absolute errors on a desktop computer would be going up over time.