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- From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
- Subject: Parity on iAPX x86 chips
- Message-ID: <C0r3oq.4Hu@cs.mcgill.ca>
- Sender: news@cs.mcgill.ca (Netnews Administrator)
- Organization: SOCS - McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:10:02 GMT
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- I've noticed that most of the x86 chips I have programmed have a Parity
- bit. I was just wondering if they actually compute this every time an
- operation is done, or if they just get this from memory (ie, is the parity
- bit valid after EVERY operation, or just loads from memory...?)
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- Toodlepip!
- Marc 'em.
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- Marc Wandschneider Montreal, CANADA fire "
- Any opinions expressed are not mine, but those of the Demon Lord
- Yeegeheeegenogohugu who possessed me whilst I munched on Raisin Bran.
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