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Article #2902Re: Compaq find problem with chip
From: Michael Z Slater
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1989 17:08
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1989 17:08
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The bug Compaq referred to was in the FPU on the 486. It occurs only under very specific and rare conditions. Intel says only that a customer found it, and won't identify which one; Compaq says it was them. An indication of how obscure the bus is is that the 486 passes all of Intel's test suites for the 387. Intel says that they have engineered the fix, and will have corrected parts by the end of November. Michael Slater, Microprocessor Report mslater@cup.portal.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!mslater From: mslater@cup.portal.com (Michael Z Slater) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Compaq find problem with chip Message-ID: <23548@cup.portal.com> Date: 31 Oct 89 17:08:20 GMT References: <2719@ganymede.inmos.co.uk> <2725@ganymede.inmos.co.uk> <2591@munnari.oz.au> <2655@uceng.UC.EDU> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 11