Subject: Re: Future hardware concerns
To: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
From: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/20/1996 09:59:33
>> There is nothing that prevents you from having an ECC or parity SIMM
>> with EDO RAM chips.
>Other than that there's no standard for what they should look like, no
>motherboard accepts them, and you can't buy them. But if you gloss
>over these minor, petty details, then you're right... :')
I didn't say you could _buy_ them! :-) OK, there is nothing that
prevents a well-meaning engineer from implementing them, making them,
and selling them. But, as far as I know, they currently don't exist.
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