Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 May 1999 14:23:35 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Oops assist... |
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On Wed, 12 May 1999, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> On 11-May-99 Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > Because that's how it works! Every memory access, read or write, adjusts > > ECC data. If it's a write, the compare-with-previous (actually an XOR) > > operation is skipped. > > doesn't it really depend on the memory controller design? > --
Yes. However, the controller and RAM has to work together. It is unlikely that someone would use a non-compliant design because you'd need special RAM (shades of the DEC Rainbow).
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