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The following appeared on the front page of a UK trade paper called
   "Electronics Weekly" on 7/19/89 :

 Headline (36pt bold) - "Design Fault Found in Processor Chip"  

Then six column-inches which I won't quote but which said the following:

  `A company called "Alsys" (an ADA compiler house) says that there is
  a bug in the 80286 involving interrupts. They have proved its existance
  using software.'

The article contained no technical information (not any which made any
sense anyhow) and said that Intel were denying that there was any problem.

Although the journalist (Leon Clifford) obviously regarded the possibility
of a bug in the 80286 as something to plaster over the front page (along
with ominous comments about planes falling out of the air due to processor
bugs), readers of this newsgroup will know that bugs in production revisions
of devices are very common and don't really merrit all this frothing at the 
mouth.

Now... Personally I think that you can't much lower than publishing
  unsubstantiated claims about someone's device in a trade paper. 

However... can anyone shed any informed light on  the matter (or
  comment on the ethics of hopping up and down madly about actual
  or possible bugs) ??
                
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