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From: km@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Mac Memory/Parity
Message-ID: <1047@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Date: 4 Mar 88 15:30:30 GMT
Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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Keywords: Memory Parity

I am curious. All the available memory expansion units for the Mac
consist of 8 chips, but the picture of the MacPlus board on the
front of Inside Macintosh, vol. 4, shows 9 chips across. Did the
Mac hardware at one time support a parity bit, and was this dis-
continued?

  Ken Mitchum
  Univ of Pgh
  Decision Systems Laboratory