Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!samsung!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Why are Amigaoids hell bent on proving the Amiga is better ? Message-ID: Date: 30 Jun 91 10:35:51 GMT References: <1991Jun27.170049.21231@grebyn.com> <1991Jun29.005127.17803@grebyn.com> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 22 greg@pfloyd.lonestar.org (Greg Harp) writes: >How can you fix the memory with just one parity bit? You can't even >be sure that it's not the parity bit that is wrong. Besides, on the PC >(not that there aren't other machines that use 9-bit parity memory) the >machine just hangs anyway. I believe that when IBM was designing their "state of the art" PC, they felt the system might be too fast for the ram to keep up(yeah right), so they implemented parity bits as a "feature." I would suspect it was IBM that probably produced alot of ram at the time of the design could plop in another ram chip for every 4. This would keep another department at IBM busy making ram. Don't alot of clones have dummy chips that fake (calculate) parity? -- C-UseNet V0.42f Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.