At 8:12 AM -0700 10/9/2008, PeterH wrote: >Why don't people understand that it is Apple which is the root cause >of these incompatibilities
*gasp* gah. I don't have enough paws to cover eyes ears and mouth at the same time! Such sacrilege! Here, have a pizza. Now go! >Apple's DRAM controller chips only accept a subset, possibly a small >subset of all these RAM sticks. heh. I should have read thru the whole thread before posting my reply. :) Yea, what Peter said. >When Apple began to experience more and more apparent "problems" ... >all of its own doing, but for which it refused to accept >responsibility ... Apple began to demand more and tighter RAM specs, yea. >and its later Mac OSes refused to work with RAM which did not meet >the later, and more demanding RAM specs. Odd thing that. Think about it... what makes one OS more "picky" about memory than another? The implications are a bit scary... The times I've dug into it.... It turns out that the older OS was ignoring spurious errors thrown by the controller. The newer OS pays more attention. Because Apple doesn't use ECC,,, that means your data in the older system was foo -- And you never knew it until the crash hit! - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
