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From: bobr@zeus.TEK.COM (Robert Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix/Xenix on the 386
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Date: Mon, 4-May-87 02:36:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  4 02:36:32 1987
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    Certain Intel 386 chips come up with the wrong answer when doing a 32
    bit add. 

Funny, what I read is that in protected mode (and only protected mode),
there were 16 x 10^18th (exponent from memory and probably approximate)
pairs of operands to the multiply instruction which will generate the wrong
results.  Perhaps there is more than one bug left in the 386.
-- 
Robert Reed, Tektronix CAE Systems Division, bobr@zeus.TEK