Path: 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
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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