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Article #2900Re: Compaq find problem with chip
From: Ronald S. Woan
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1989 15:47
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1989 15:47
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In article <443@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl>, dolf@idca.tds.PHILIPS. Grunbauer) writes: > What is the actual problem ? What chips 80486 and/or 80487 ? > Could someone give more details or did they only say there is a problem > and not what the precise problem is ? According, second hand, to the San Jose Mercury news 27 Oct 89, a defect causes incorrect calculations given a rare sequence of floating point operations. Ghastly! Ron +------All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By-------+ +-------------------------------My Employer-----------------------------------+ + Ronald S. Woan (IBM VNET)WOAN AT AUSTIN, (AUSTIN)ron@woan.austin.ibm.com + + outside of IBM @cs.utexas.edu:ibmaus!auschs!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron +
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!romp!auschs!awdprime!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron From: ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Compaq find problem with chip Keywords: defect in all '486 chips thus far! Message-ID: <788@awdprime.UUCP> Date: 31 Oct 89 15:47:41 GMT References: <443@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl> <2719@ganymede.inmos.co.uk> <2725@ganymede.inmos.co.uk> <2591@munnari.oz.au> Sender: news@awdprime.UUCP Reply-To: @cs.utexas.edu:ibmaus!auschs!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Organization: IBM-Austin, AWD Lines: 16