Subject: Re: true-parity RAM versus psuedo-parity RAM
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG, alex@vsys.com>
From: Wolfgang Solfrank <ws@kurt.tools.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/21/1997 21:46:59
> Maybe I'm missing something here ...
It looks so. True parity meaning one parity bit per byte gives you eight
extra bits if you have a 64 bit data bus. This is enough to implement some
hamming code to allow for single bit error correction, which is ECC.
Hope it helps.
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