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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: 80386-33 and "double sigma rule" ??
Message-ID: <2354@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 90 02:41:51 GMT
References: <3720001@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com> <15882@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <15882@cbmvax.commodore.com> brim@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mike Brim - Product Assurance) writes:

| If you are referring to the "16-bit only operation" bug, that occurred only 
| with early 16MHz 80386 CPUs (and the 1st 20,000 of them).  20MHz and greater
| do not have the problem.  The buggy 16MHZ 80386's are also suppose to have 
| markings on it stating that the chip is for 16-bit operation only.  
| Unfortunately many chips went out before this marking was added.

  And most of the one which might have the bug seem to work fine. I got
this system four years ago, the first 386 actually delivering, and have
run 32 bit software on it as a BBS, uucp hub, development machine, etc,
for four solid years. Yet to have the first hardware problem.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me