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To: Buckwheat who wrote (58979)	6/27/1998 6:14:00 PM
From: Buckwheat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Is this the reassurance that financial institutions, the scientific community, large corporations, governmental agencies, and many others are looking for in accepting Intel as a viable multiprocessing alternative? techweb.com EXCERPTS OF ARTICLE: [However, Intel's technical documentation shows current-generation Pentium IIs are plagued by a variety of problems that surface during unusual operating conditions. (Xeon is essentially a Pentium II with larger caches and a faster processor bus.) Some of the more interesting bugs, or errata, show up in multiprocessing configurations.] [Intel's report stresses the problem occurs only during a rare, specific sequence of events over the bus. The company also said the glitch is more likely to occur in multiprocessing systems than in single-processor configurations. However, Intel reports there is currently no solution for the erratum.] [All told, Intel's latest, public bug list for the Pentium II, issued this month, shows six errata linked to multiprocessing configurations.] [For example, another possibly problematic glitch involves a so-called "livelock" situation, which can occur in two-way multiprocessing systems. The bug sometimes arises when both of a system's CPUs are attempting to complete write-back operations over the bus. An infinite loop can be set into motion, as the system bounces back and forth between both processors, causing lockup.] REGARDS Buckwheat