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RAM Test ROM for IBM PC/XT and Clones
RAM test ROM for IBM PC/XT and Clones. Contribute to ki3v/xtramtest development by creating an account on GitHub.
Bit pattern and address/data bus exercise testing based on ideas published by Jack Ganssle. values used by older RAM tests) are of limited value because of the many kinds of RAM faults they don't reliably detect, Ganssle describes in the link above how to aggressively exercise the address and data busses to attempt to expose hardware that may work under simple testing but will fail under heavier load or more challenging sequences of events. As part of the IBM BIOS image file preparation, a specific checksum is calculated, and this is inconvenient to do in a cross-platform way.
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