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To: Tony Viola who wrote (42760)4/5/2001 10:58:29 PM
From: Charles Tutt  Respond to of 64865
 
I suppose not bothering to fix them is ok, though? See:

developer.intel.com

(at page 18, 28th page of the document):

"PENTIUM ® III PROCESSOR SPECIFICATION UPDATE
Summary of Errata
NO. Kb0 kC0 Ca2 Cb0 CC0 PKG Plans ERRATA
E1 X X X X X NoFix FP data operand pointer may be incorrectly
calculated after FP access which wraps
64-Kbyte boundary in 16-bit code"

It seems the same bug is in the PIII and their plans for it are "NoFix." This has nothing to do with "pre-released" chips.

JMHO.

Charles Tutt (TM)



To: Tony Viola who wrote (42760)4/5/2001 11:04:15 PM
From: Charles Tutt  Respond to of 64865
 
BTW, you don't think needing to develop and use a "workaround" is a degradation? Sun publishes tons of information about issues with their systems. Because they don't manufacture chips for sale to others (AFAIK), the nature of the information they release is probably slightly different from Intel's.

JMHO.

Charles Tutt (TM)


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