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From: des@yatton.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Compaq find problem with chip
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Date: 30 Oct 89 15:48:55 GMT
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Friday's (27oct89) Financial Times had an article headlined

	"Compaq shares drop as it finds `problem' with chip"

Brief summary: Compaq announced that it had found problem with fpu on
an Intel chip it is using in its new generation PCs. An analyst is
quoted as saying "You could just hear an audible gasp in the crowd when
they made the announcement". The result of this was a 10% fall in the
value of Compaq stocks and 5% fall in Intel stocks. Neither company was
clarifying what the problem or its implications actually were.

Anyone got any more info on what's happenning .... I assume its the
80486 at fault.

david shepherd
INMOS ltd

ps Compaq just seem to be unlucky when it comes to Intel fpus .... they
got very bored with waiting for correct 80387s as well ;-)