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From: ram@shukra.Eng.Sun.COM (Renu Raman)
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Subject: Re: What's in the '586?
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Date: 23 May 91 04:59:24 GMT
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>You're raising the possibility that the drug test results were rigged
>to get you and your buddies off the project. Would you care to state
>for the record whether you felt the drug tests were accurate?
>-- 
>David Feustel, 1930 Curdes Ave, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, (219) 482-9631

I can answer that easily.  No they were not!  The testing equipment
used the new 68EC030, with 256 KB of parity less DRAM. In many cases
test failure could be attributed to 1 bit errors in the DRAM. This shows why
parity is very important!

So, what is it that the 586 does not have?

renu raman


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