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Hello,

> >> I've got a SS4 - my desktop machine at work - and it's been giving
> >> me
> >> NMI: system interrupts: 40000000<VME=3D0,SBUS=3D0,ME>
>=20
> >> occasionally (maybe ten times in the last six months).
>=20
> > Wasn't that the MicroSPARC's way to complain about RAM parity
> > errors?
>=20
> Was it?  I don't know.  The M bit is not set (SINTR_M); that seems to
> be the memory error indicator, based on the code - or is that only for
> machines with real ECC, not just parity?

My SPARCbook ( which has a MS-II ) spewed errors like that when
something touched the right bits in a faulty SIMM ( and never did it
again after I replaced them ). I'm just not 100% sure it's /exactly/
the same number ( only 98.5% or so ;) )

have fun
Michael

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