Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!uflorida!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT Memory - No Error Checking or Parity ! Message-ID: <10456@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 27 Oct 88 22:16:03 GMT Article-I.D.: s.10456 References: <549@gt-eedsp.UUCP> <5754@hoptoad.uucp> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 14 Lack of a parity bit is a definite minus... even with "modern reliable memory". On my 3b1, somewhere in the 3.5 megs of memory in the machine, there is one or more bad chips. When the machine boots it finds those bad chips during the memory check and maps them out. I would prefer if it were to tell me where the bad chip is so that I could replace it, but I like the fact that it's being mapped out. And as near as I can figure it's only costing me 35K of memory ... I *like* the parity in my unix pc.. -- <-- David Herron; an MMDF guy <-- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <-- <-- Controlled anarchy -- the essence of the net.