Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen
From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: 88k - what bug level?
Message-ID: <2091@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 7 Feb 90 13:16:11 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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  I had a chance to try an Aviion before they were marketed, and noted
that there were compiler switches in the C compiler to generate code to
get around the bugs in the 88k. I believe that there were three chip
revs supported.

  I *assume* that before the production model shipped there was a clean
version of the 88k, but I have lost my inside connection, due to someone
offering him $20/hr more to consult elsewhere.

  What's the scoop on this chip?
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
            "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me