Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!cdin-1!icdi10!fr From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Memory Parity. Is It Really Needed Message-ID: <1991Apr7.161301.17251@compu.com> Date: 7 Apr 91 16:13:01 GMT References: <3370017@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com> <1991Mar24.094904.9519@eecs.wsu.edu> <2217@pdxgate.UUCP> Organization: CompuData Inc. Lines: 40 berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren) writes: >wbonner@eecs.wsu.edu (Wim Bonner) writes: > nice touch ;) -v >>In article <3370017@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com> plim@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com (Peter Lim) writes: >>>Anyway, I've got a friend who uses his PC system with no parity for >>>more than a year now and he's fine. >>My Wyse 286 box came with memory that doesn't have parity checking at all in >>the first 640k. Some of us are forced to deal with the hope that nothing >>goes wrong with that memory. anyway, it has worked ok for the past two years >>running both DOS and OS/2 so I figure it must be OK. > The part about memory parity I don't understand is that I am told one >wants memory parity checking done to "prevent loss of important data". Well >everytime I got a memory parity error, I lost important data because it >brought the whole system to a halt. What next? Helicopters with emergency >ejector seats? wierd... Boy, does that bring back memories. We installed a number of Wyse 286 and early model 386 boxes running Xenix and none are left in the field. These things may run DOS just fine and we use them now for junk work in the office but trusting them at customer locations was simply not worth the agony. Since we sold them we had to replace them with something that worked reliably. While it cost us some money, we only lost one client in the process. (He siad we should have known better than to sell them junk) The whole wyse fiasco rippled thru the marketplace and put them into tenuous financial condition until the buyout with additional cash. We still sell their terminals and wish they would stick to them. But I hear that their current computer line works as well as any but I have no direct experience there. Fred -- W. Fred Rump office: fred.COMPU.COM 26 Warren St. home: fred@icdi10.COMPU.COM Beverly, NJ. 08010 bang: ...{dsinc uunet}!cdin-1!icdi10!fred 609-386-6846 "Freude... Alle Menschen werden Brueder..." - The Ode