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Date:      Sat, 8 Nov 1997 23:25:04 -0800 (PST)
From:      Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>
To:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IDT processors?
Message-ID:  <199711090725.XAA27310@kithrup.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971108232824.23632A-100000.kithrup.freebsd.chat@darkstar.home>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.971108225631.5031B-100000@dot.ishiboo.com>

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On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Atipa wrote:
> What/Who is IDT? I heard about some So. CA startup company using the 
> SGS/Thompson Fab. Is that them? 

IDT is a company that makes various parts; they're up the street a bit from
me, and were doing lots of MIPS stuff for a while.  (I don't know if they
still are.)

Their x86 clone attracted a lot of attention because it is simple, yet
manages to be fast.  (Part of that is because they apparantly use the extra
real-estate to put on lots of L1 cache.)

As many may recall, I am not a fan of Intel right now, and assembled my new
system to use as few Intel parts as possible.  I've got a K6-200 in my
system, and it works quite well, so far.  As I said, it is not affected by
this particular bug (although it does not execute the instruction
correctly).




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