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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT Memory - No Error Checking or Parity !
Message-ID: <5754@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 25 Oct 88 23:54:08 GMT
References: <549@gt-eedsp.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <549@gt-eedsp.UUCP> jensen@gt-eedsp.UUCP (P. Allen Jensen) writes:
>I was supprised to learn that the cold-start diagnostics do not
>check memory for errors - they just look to see if there is any
>memory there.

How fast can *you* check 8 Megabytes of RAM???
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
"Because there is something in you that I respect, and that makes me desire
 to have you for my enemy."
"Thats well said.  On those terms, sir, I will accept your enmity or any
 man's."
    - Shaw, "The Devil's Disciple"