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Re: Determining amount of RAM on a board?

On Sat, 18 Aug 2001 09:34:53 -0700, Wayne Stewart wrote:

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> william strutts wrote:
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>> NP might be "no parity".???
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> Parity isn't something you see in single chips like these. With banks
> of them, if they use parity, they use a 9th chip for parity.
> Usually the chip type and speed use standard numbers but the rest is
> usually the manufacturers own code. Sometimes all the numbers are
> the manufacturers own and you need either their reference or to see
> the chip on a circuitboard to identify it.
>
>     Wayne

Parity was something only crappy PCs needed. I think due to their hardware
architecture. Even the SIMMs for the early Macs were 8 chip.


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