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- From: amuser@cs.curtin.edu.au (Bill Sharp-Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Moving 500 to 1200, BAD NEWS
- Message-ID: <amuser.720949086@marsh>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 07:38:06 GMT
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- johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven) writes:
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- >> > 1 Meg x 9 (beacuse they have stupid memory management) and the Mac
- >> Thats because they include memory parity checking.
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- >Parity checking adds 12.5% more RAM cells to go wrong.
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- >If you get a parity error, is it the memory bits or the parity bit
- >that is kaput?
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- Well, there's only a 1 in 9 chance that it's the parity bit ;-)
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- Gary McGhee
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