Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ns-mx!umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu!williams From: williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: v09i191: popadbug, test for 386 CPU bug Message-ID: <3805@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Date: 6 Jan 91 14:10:55 GMT References: <336@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU> <1991Jan5.000042.19703@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <3799@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Sender: news@ns-mx.uiowa.edu Reply-To: williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu.UUCP (Kent Williams) Organization: U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Lines: 16 In article dave@interlan.interlan.com writes: >HOWEVER, for those of us who program in assembler, this is definitely >something to be aware of. The 1990 version of the _386DX Programmer's >Reference Manual_ makes no statement of this. Not surprising (in fact, >par for the course), so you should regularly request the errata sheets. > Intel never corrects typos in their manuals, and they give out processor bug sheets only grudgingly. There are (I think) about thirty hardware bugs in the 386 and SX. Most of them are pretty trivial, but I wouldn't want to try and write any protected mode system software without knowing where they were. -- Kent Williams --- williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu "'Is this heaven?' --- 'No, this is Iowa'" - from the movie "Field of Dreams" "This isn't heaven, ... this is Cleveland" - Harry Allard, in "The Stupids Die"