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From: dcrowley@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (David Crowley)
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Subject: Re: v09i191: popadbug, test for 386 CPU bug
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Date: 10 Jan 91 23:18:21 GMT
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In article <1991Jan5.044926.14501@eng.ufl.edu> shelby@sun1.ise.ufl.edu (Scott Preston) writes:
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>    My SX failed the test of course!  I think all 386s fail this test..is this
>a bug OR, a "feature" since sooooo many have this??

Your SX may have failed but mine at home didn't, but all the SX's and DX's
at work failed. So it is actually a bug. I think it can be "fixed" by putting
a NOP just after the POP (of the stack) - at least that is what I read in
another article about this.
							David...

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