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From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 40 MHZ 286?
Message-ID: <7761@bigtex.uucp>
Date: 8 Sep 88 19:29:25 GMT
References: <342@intek01.UUCP> <24728@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <3333@homxc.UUCP>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX
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In article <3333@homxc.UUCP>, rps@homxc.UUCP (R.SHARPLES) wrote:

> [...] Chang accumulates machine instructions until he has a whole bunch
> and then crams them through the CPU at a 40 Mhz rate.  He then lets the 
> chip sit quiet for a while so it doesn't melt down. [...]

Heat is not the only problem, and it can be a lot more subtle than
just "melting down".  Both the Intel 386 problem and the AMD 286
problem are temperature-induced failures that are intermittent in the
production sense (ie, not all chips experience the failure mode).
This is probably one of those things that sounds really neat on paper,
but never really works right in the real world...
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