[toast0]

> the precedent set quite a while ago has stood so strongly.

I wasn't really around for it, but I appreciate the early penny pinchers that developed fake parity ram. The IBM PC required a parity bit per byte?, but you could add an xor chip to calculate it at read and save out on the expensive ram chip.

I wouldn't mind paying a little more for ECC, what with the extra chip and a little more circuitry, but desktop ECC often starts at 50% more, which I'm way too cheap to pay for.

[Dylan16807]

My favorite parity trick was how the N64 was designed around ECC RAM chips but didn't bother using ECC, so it has a ninth bit at every address that the CPU ignores and the GPU uses as extra storage.