[H-GEN] Sparc Stations

[Nickolas Kwiatkowski]

On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Paul Gearon wrote:
> > 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.  ;^)
>

Sorry, I forgot the add that detail, because some Sun use the extra bit
for other thing apart from parity.

Nik

Nickolas Kwiatkowski                                       ph 61 7 3864 1290
Queensland University of Technology                  nickolas at fit.qut.edu.au
Brisbane, Australia                     http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/~nickolas/

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