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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: i486 machines
Message-ID: <1587@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 9 Nov 89 20:00:32 GMT
References: <1263@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <1418@starfish.Convergent.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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In article <1418@starfish.Convergent.COM>, jerry@starfish.Convergent.COM (Gerald Hawkins) writes:

|  Comment?  Anybody from Compaq out there?  Anybody going to buy a new
|  Compaq '486 machine even knowing the '486 has a floating point bug?

  Why not? The bug occurs infrequently and Intel has already said it
will replace the chips on request. I'm waiting for the 33MHz part
mayself, the problems which are too big for a 386 are going to need at
least 2:1 improvement to be practical.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon