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From: shannon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Greg Shannon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Insane DSP56000 Instructions
Message-ID: <25773@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 9 Sep 89 22:16:28 GMT
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This discussion that damaging codes can be produced for the
DSP are quite concerning to me since my research funds are invested in
2 of these machines so far.
I would greatly appreciate it if someone from NeXT would comment on this
problem -- is it true or not??
In particular, does the warranty covers DSP chips damaged
because of this, yes?  Also, what is to keep a bug in .8 or .9 from 
creating such damage.  How does the warranty apply if the DSP chip
was damaged before the warranty ran out, but it wasn't discovered for some
time?  In general, if this possibility of damaging the DSP is true,
it seems that all NeXT owners have quite a problem on their hands.
(What is to keep a malicious student from killing the DSP?)

Again, someone from NeXT should respond to this, soon!

Greg Shannon
Computer Science Dept
Indiana University