Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:4671 comp.sys.intel:1591 comp.unix.sysv386:4205 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!emory!rsiatl!jgd From: jgd@Dixie.Com (John G. DeArmond) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.intel,comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: i386DX, help needed Message-ID: <6003@rsiatl.Dixie.Com> Date: 21 Jan 91 17:31:20 GMT References: <1991Jan21.102805.21229@isis.cs.du.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Distribution: comp Organization: Rapid Deployment Systems (making go-fast things and things that-go fast) Lines: 234 dkessner@isis.cs.du.edu (David D. Kessner) writes: >There is a program called Check-It (offhand, I forgot who makes it. It is not >PD or shareware). This diag program will check a 386 CPU for the 'pre-sigma- >sigma' bug. Gee, you mean someone actually tried to SELL such a program? 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