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General Protection Fault (GPF)   General Protection Fault is a wacky, zany on-line comic strip full of geeky fun, bizarre characters, and a sentient slime mold or two.  
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memory bank   A memory bank is a logical unit of storage in electronics, which is hardware dependent  
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parity   A parity bit, or check bit, is a bit added to the end of a string of binary code that indicates whether the number of bits in the string with the value one is even or odd.  
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parity error   A parity error is occurring on a PC as it boots up  
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RDRAM   Direct Rambus DRAM or DRDRAM is a type of synchronous dynamic RAM.  
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re-marked chips   Marking processors is part of the chip manufacturing exercise.  
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RIMM   RIMM may refer to: Rambus In-line Memory Module, a packaging for RDRAM ยท Research In Motion  
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SIMM (single inline memory module)   A SIMM, or single in-line memory module, is a type of memory module containing random access memory used in computers from the early 1980s to the late 1990s.  
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Single channel   Single channel per carrier (SCPC) refers to using a single signal at a given frequency and bandwidth.  
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single ranked   Singe Rank Memory can be memory with chips on only one side of the stick of memory  
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single-sided   a double-sided disk is a disk of which both sides are used to store data.  
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SO-DIMM (small outline DIMM)   An SO-DIMM, or small outline dual in-line memory module, is a type of computer memory built using integrated circuits.  
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synchronous DRAM (SDRAM)   SDRAM (synchronous DRAM) is a generic name for various kinds of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) that are synchronized with the clock speed that the microprocessor is optimized for.  
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triple channels   Triple-channel interleaving reduces overall memory latency by accessing the DIMM memory sequentially  
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