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From: baxter@robespierre.ICS.UCI.EDU (Ira Baxter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Parity error handling under DOS?
Message-ID: <9008101543.aa18551@PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU>
Date: 10 Aug 90 22:42:57 GMT
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My PC clone has memory-parity error detect.  How does this information make
its way from the the detection circuitry to me, the user, when a parity
error occurs?   I assume there is some sort of non-maskable interrupt vector
provided by the hardware for this... but I hear that *application* software
actually "ignores" such errors; how would the software accomplish this,
and why would anybody writing an application program bother to do this?


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Ira Baxter