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On Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:32:19 -0500 (EST), John Kim wrote: >On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Paul Khoury wrote: >> On Tue, 20 Jan 1998 14:11:32 -0700 (MST), billy@MIX.COM wrote: >> >> >Yes the 755 uses parity memory. You can turn off the parity error >> >detection in the set-up (hold F1 down and boot) but I'd suggest not >> >doing this - I have had one card that had errors and I'd never have >> >know without it... >> >> That's one of the nice things about parity. It's such a shame >> that the newer ThinkPads don't use parity, at least the >> non-EDO models. > >Actually, the really nice way to handle parity was the way some >EISA systems (remember those?) Yeah, I considered buying one about 2 weeks ago. :) did it. If the motherboard >detected a parity error, it would map around the bad memory. >You'd lose something like 8k, but the memory module would still >be usable. > Didn't Microchannel do that also? I know that MCA was sort of similiar to EISA. -- Paul =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Paul Khoury pkhoury@loop.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Proudly using OS/2 Warp 3 & 4 Donate your idle CPU time to a needy cause. Join Team Warped and help to crack RC5-64! Check out http://www.ionet.net/~colin/rc5.html for more information. The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 21 Processes with 83 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 10h 5m 2s 195ms. -- Paul =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Paul Khoury pkhoury@loop.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Proudly using OS/2 Warp 3 & 4 Donate your idle CPU time to a needy cause. Join Team Warped and help to crack RC5-64! Check out http://www.ionet.net/~colin/rc5.html for more information. The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 21 Processes with 83 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 10h 5m 14s 984ms.