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From: poffen@chomolungma (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: i486 machines
Message-ID: <1989Nov12.053414.12016@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 12 Nov 89 05:34:14 GMT
References: <1263@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger ATE, San Jose, CA
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In article <1263@rodan.acs.syr.edu> cwebster@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Chris Webster) writes:
>
>   First of all, about the problem with 486 chips: I recall reading precisely
>   what the problem was, but I can't remember where.  Since it evidently wasn't
>   on here, it must've been in a magazine.  Since the only technical magazine
>   (only because it's the  only computing magazine that I read :) is BYTE, I

The Oct. 31 issue of EE times had a good description of the bug.
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