>  * I had reason to believe that this old PII motherboard could take
>    parity RAM (I didn't count, but do not believe that there were 9
>    chips on the SIMMs, so they presumably didn't do parity).

Every machine can take parity RAM. If the mobo doesn't require the 
parity, it just gets ignored. My AlphaStation requires parity SIMMS 
at 70ns, my Macintoshes don't need parity but one needs 60ns. So I 
always get 60ns Parity & can happily swap sticks between them all.

HTH
Mike
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