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From: floyd@starsend.UUCP (Floyd Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: does anyone know if any i486 have bugs?
Message-ID: <0053@starsend.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 91 23:19:43 GMT
References: <1991Mar7.114128.14955@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Reply-To: floyd@starsend.UUCP (Floyd Miller)
Organization: Woodward McCoach, Inc.
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In article <1991Mar7.114128.14955@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
         antonyc@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Antony Chan) writes:
  ...
> i seem to recall hearing about some of the i486's having
> problems.  does anybody remember which serial numbers
> they were and what the problem was, or am i going
  ...

I don't know about bugs in the i486, per se, but I have run
into some software that crashes on a 386 if there's a 387
co-processor present.  The save programs crash on a 486 and
the floating point hardware can't be removed from the 486.


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