BL> In a general sense, I never did see any point in parity. If a system
BL> is so unreliable it needs 12.5% redundancy then 12.5% is not enough!
BL> The minimum workable redundancy is 100% - or you may as well not
BL> bother.

It isn't redundancy, it's designed to see if an error has occurred, ie the
memory has been corrupted.  It is not able to fix the error, just hang the
system or something suitable so that you get the message that your ram is
fucked as opposed to getting corrupt data. BFN.  Paul.
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