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From: berg@cip-s05.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (AKA Solitair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: 486 bugs with network card interrupts
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Date: 10 Dec 90 15:22:01 GMT
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According to some computer magazine, there is supposed to be a bug
in "version 3" of the 486 regarding interrupt processing.

The bug (discovered by a UK firm) alledgedly is especially important
for 'networked' 486's.  They say it is not easy to reproduce the bug.

And neither Intel nor Novell have been able to reproduce the bug
(so they say :-).

Does anyone have more specific info about this bug?  (or for that matter,
any known bugs of the 486?)

If you send me mail, please take care to use the address in the signature.
Thanks.
-- 
Sincerely,                 berg%cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de@unido.bitnet
           Stephen R. van den Berg.
"I code it in 5 min, optimize it in 90 min, because it's so well optimized:
it runs in only 5 min.  Actually, most of the time I optimize programs."