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From: brandonl@amadeus.WR.TEK.COM (Brandon G. Lovested)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 68040 vs 80246 (Was Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!)
Summary: bugs
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Date: 19 Dec 89 20:20:19 GMT
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One of the overriding concerns of the 386 was to bring out a chip that
would correct some major flaws in the 286 - ASAP.

But, in general, every engineer that has to work with Intel 80xxx
knows that they are "bug for bug compatible with previous chips."
This was the decision made by Intel - to incorporate previous bugs
into new chips based upon the same architecture so that all those
fixes for the original bugs would still operate with the new chips.

That isn't a ridiculous decision.  The main complaint of Intel
chips is their lack of orthogonality, as compared to Motorola
68xxx chips.



P.S. : What's a 80246?  ;-)



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