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From: witr@spooky.rwwa.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Parity SIMMS really necessary?
Date: 3 Dec 1995 16:31:25 GMT
Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
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     Peter da Silva wrote in article <49qabp$efi@zuul.nmti.com> :
>The whole idea of putting that much memory in a box without at *least*
>parity (and preferably ECC) makes me sick in the stomach.

Well, it all depends on BER.  But is ECC even an option?  What
MBs support ECC, and with which SIMMS?

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