Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 80386 Bug - Does anybody else have it?
Message-ID: <9724@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 29 Feb 88 16:10:20 GMT
References: <4160002@wdl1.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <4160002@wdl1.UUCP> rhj@wdl1.UUCP (Bob Jones) writes:
| I recently purchased a Proteus 386 box. According to Infoworld, it
| ran fast and was cheap. By and large I am happy with it, but the
| 80386 CHIP DOESN'T WORK :(... It fails the 32 bit integer multiply
| test. Proteus claims that Intel hasn't shipped them any good 
| chips and that they can't upgrade me until Intel ships to them.

Other manufactures have been getting the good chips, even the clones.
The statement that Intel hasn't shipped them any good chips may be true,
but it implies (a) that they are big enough to buy from Intel rather
than a distributor, and (b) that they have ordered chips in the last 3-6
months. I would be sure (a) and (b) are true before blaming Intel.

I haven't seen anything but "double sigma" chips in clones in at least
three months. I CAN buy "16 bit only" 386's cheap (or could, I haven't
checked lately).
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me