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To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (3952)12/7/1998 10:25:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul  Respond to of 14778
 
Where did you get that info

Popular belief? which looks like popular myth...

From the PC Guide
pcguide.com

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Incidentally, contrary to popular myth, parity checking does not slow down the operation of the memory system. At all. The
parity bit generation and detection is done in parallel with the writing or reading of the system memory,

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Thanks for the correction

Zeuspaul