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From: wbonner@eecs.wsu.edu (Wim Bonner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Memory Parity. Is It Really Needed
Message-ID: <1991Mar24.094904.9519@eecs.wsu.edu>
Date: 24 Mar 91 09:49:04 GMT
References:  <3370017@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com>
Reply-To: wbonner@yoda.UUCP (Wim Bonner)
Organization: Washington State University, Pullman
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In article <3370017@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com> plim@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com (Peter Lim) writes:
>Anyway, I've got a friend who uses his PC system with no parity for
>more than a year now and he's fine.

My Wyse 286 box came with memory that doesn't have parity checking at all in
the first 640k.  Some of us are forced to deal with the hope that nothing 
goes wrong with that memory.  anyway, it has worked ok for the past two years 
running both DOS and OS/2 so I figure it must be OK.

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