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- From: scdorcy@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (JAMES DORCEY)
- Subject: Re: Memory parity error d & MS slack code
- Message-ID: <15SEP199216445769@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>
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- References: <2787.1100.uupcb@satalink.com> <1992Sep14.215137.3869@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 15 Sep 1992 16:44 EST
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- In article <1992Sep14.215137.3869@klaava.Helsinki.FI>,
- jliukkon@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Juha-Matti Liukkonen) writes...
-
- >OTOH, I do agree with you about the Win 3.0 note. Then again, I wonder
- >whether the makers of Windows actually use the hardware in some non-
- >standard way, 'cause Windows seems to be the #1 error detector in the
- >market today - it crashes on errors that _no_ other piece of software
- >can find!
-
- I can think of a better one, but I can't mention it in this newsgroup :-)
- (Except it doesn't crash on error, it just won't let you install it).
-
- During my brief experience with Win 3.1, _some_ of the GPFs which I
- experienced kind of went away when I replaced a 1x9 SIMM. How I found out
- it was a memory problem is a different story.
-
- JD
-