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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Parity chip on Intel Computers
Summary: What is 9th chip for...?
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.173721.3963@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 27 Feb 91 17:37:21 GMT
References: <Feb.26.23.32.29.1991.23116@occlusal.rutgers.edu> <1991Feb27.140227.9246@panix.uucp>
Sender: storm@cs.mcgill.ca  (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
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    What is the ninth chip on a Standard PC SIMM for (ie, the so call 
'parity' chip) ...?  Why is it that the Intel computers require these and the
AMIGAs and other 680x0 computer do not...?

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storm@cs.mcgill.ca         McGill University           It's 11pm, do YOU
Marc Wandschneider         Montreal, CANADA            know what time it is?
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storm@cs.mcgill.ca         McGill University           It's 11pm, do YOU
Marc Wandschneider         Montreal, CANADA            know what time it is?
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