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From: ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan)
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Subject: Re: Compaq find problem with chip
Keywords: defect in all '486 chips thus far!
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Date: 31 Oct 89 15:47:41 GMT
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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

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