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From: jer@peora
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Subject: Re: Suspected "popf" bug in Intel 80286
Message-ID: <2128@peora>
Date: Fri, 2-May-86 17:21:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  2 17:21:00 1986
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> While experimenting with an asynchronous communication driver for VENIX
> (in protected mode) on the IBM PC/AT, I encountered some rather strange
> behavior that I now attribute to a bug in the Intel 80286 processor.

There was also an article in the latest issue of this new newspaper that
replaced _On_Communications_ (I forget the name, I think it might be
_Network_World_) that claimed that a bug existed in the 286 which was
causing network processors using that MPU to "lock up".  Unfortunately,
the article was very unclear on what was going on; and according to the
article, Intel denied any problem existed, claiming manufacturers just
hadn't followed the documentation properly, whereas the manufacturers
interviewed claimed there was a bug in the processor.  Does anybody know
what is going on with that, and if it is the same problem referenced
above?
-- 
E. Roskos