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From: tes@whutt.ATT.COM (STERKEL)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Brown Bag Memory Test--worthless?
Message-ID: <4022@whutt.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 Nov 88 12:40:14 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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I see that Brown Bag's Shareware Ramtest 3.0 is being
distributed.  In response to an urgent request to the
network last month, I got two copies.  (BTW, thanks!)

I threw away one after comp-ing and diff-ing to verify
that they were the same, and ran the test on memory
for 1 iteration.  No error.  This is impossible, as I
frequently get memory parity errors.  I then ran the
test 100 iterations--no error.  Finally, I ran the
test for *10,000* iterations.  (My wife thought I was
crazy--testing for over 12 hours for an error I can
force in less than 2 hours of normal use).  Again,
RAMTEST FLUNKED; finding NO-ERROR.

Does this program *really* test memory?

terry