On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 10:05:05AM -0500, Michael G. Schabert wrote:
> > * 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.

Well, okay, if I believed that the motherboard would *use* the parity
bits, let's say.  (^&  Waste of money to replace non-parity with parity
if the system will ignore it.


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