Re: Oops assist...

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Thu, 6 May 1999 10:54:21 -0700 (PDT)


On Thu, 6 May 1999, Harald Koenig wrote:
> at least on cold power-on you first have to write something to RAM
> to initialize the parity bit(s). if you try to read RAM first,
> odds are 50% that the parity bit is wrong and you'll get an NMI...

Are you 100% sure about this? And what about warmboots.

-Dan

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