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Article #2030Re: Claimed bug in 80286
From: Marc Plumb
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1989 23:29
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1989 23:29
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les@unicads.UUCP (Les Milash) writes:
> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
>> The 386 and beyond have both device type and mask stepping numbers
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Do you mean the x,y of the individual die on the wafer!?!?!? Yikes!
> I can see how that'd be useful, but seems like a royal pain if each die on
> the wafer had to be different!
No, this has nothing to do with stepper motors. When a revision is made
to a mask (a bugfix or feature added, that doesn't warrant a whole new part
number), it's called a "step." It means about the same thing as "revision."
This lets you conditionalise the software so it uses funny workarounds only
when necessary.
--
-Colin Plumb
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!ziebmef!mcp From: mcp@ziebmef.mef.org (Marc Plumb) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Claimed bug in 80286 Message-ID: <1989Aug27.192947.888@ziebmef.mef.org> Date: 27 Aug 89 23:29:46 GMT References: <1989Aug13.023601.594@utzoo.uucp> <310@hitech.ht.oz> <21352@cup.portal.com> <1877@brwa.inmos.co.uk> <609@unicads.UUCP> Reply-To: mcp@ziebmef.mef.org (Colin Plumb) Organization: Ziebmef Public Access Unix, Toronto, Ontario Lines: 17