Re: Any new instructions in a i486?

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From: Rick Kelly
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 04:01

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In article <DERAADT.92Dec21165342@newt.newt.cuc.ab.ca> deraadt@newt.cuc.ab.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes:
>In article <9212200017.12@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
>   I don't see where this has anything to do with Intel.  Cyrix decided that
>   they could make some money by cloning a best selling CPU chip.  Obviously,
>   they have missed something.  A curious individual with a 486DLC system, a
>   486DX system, two logic analyzers, and two NeXTStep bootdisks should be
>   able to track down the problem.
>
>And probably binary-patch it to work.

Exactly.  I would almost bet that it is some weird timing problem.

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Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	merk!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP

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Subject: Re: Any new instructions in a i486?
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 04:01:57 GMT
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