On Wed, 21 May 1997 ronald@demon.net wrote:

> [on pseudo-parity RAM:]
>
> It allows you to use the simm in a machine which >requires< parity to
> be presented to the memory socket.  Naturally, you do not get any parity
> protection.  I suspect that this would work in your sparc if you don't
> care about parity protection.

My suspicion is that it would not work in many models of Sparc. My
IPX takes parity 72-pin SIMMs, but appears to use only one bit for
parity for each 32-bit word. (It came with 33-bit-wide SIMMs.)
36-bit wide SIMMs work just fine, but I expect that 32-bit wide
SIMMs that generate four parity bits for each of the four bytes of
a 32-bit word would not work.

cjs

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