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From: r. 'bear' stricklin <red_at_bears.org>
Date: Sat Feb 2 20:01:24 2002

On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Geoff Reed wrote:

> > Is that the same 5V FPM 168pin DIMM as used in early PowerMac's?
>
> Nope, I had hoped it would be the same, but it isn;'t :( I had a bunch of
> old mac ram floating around, and none of it was liked my the sparc 5.....

That's because PowerMac DIMMs are non-parity. The SS5 uses parity memory
(albeit one bit per 32-bit word, for 66-bit--wide DIMMs, instead of the
more usual arrangement of one parity bit per 8-bit byte, for 72-bit--wide
DIMMs).

ok
r.
Received on Sat Feb 02 2002 - 20:01:24 GMT