[H-GEN] Sparc Stations

[Paul Gearon]

> > P.S. I haven't had a good look yet, but does anyone know what sort of
> > ram they take? and where to get it if proprietary?
> >
> 
> No I don't think it is proprietary, the sun.faq has the following;
> 
> 
>         Memory is in the form of 1M (501-1697) or 4M (501-1625 or
>         501-1739) x 9 30-pin 80ns SIMMs in three banks:
                   ^^^^^
The 9 chips are extremely important as Suns need parity RAM.  They 
store data in the parity bit and if your RAM has logic parity then 
your Sparc won't work.  ;^)

Paul
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