Re: Classic SIMMs

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From: Craig Dewick
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 00:00

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Michael Lorenz <ml@rz.uni-potsdam.de> writes:

>Hi...

>> I don't think full-parity SIMM's with work,
>They definitely work in IPX and SPARCbook 3's. 

IPX's and ELC's had some sort of special code in the bootROM's which
detected the parity configuration of the RAM and acted accordingly. It seems
means that all the RAM has to be the same type of parity though.

Regards,

Craig.

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From: cdewick@lios.apana.org.au (Craig Dewick)
Subject: Re: Classic SIMMs
Date: 2000/04/01
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