Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 16:35:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: dg@root.com Cc: chokepnt@prima.ruhr.de, kline@tera.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mw fails even more... Message-ID: <199707182335.QAA07388@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <199707182311.QAA11705@implode.root.com> from David Greenman at "Jul 18, 97 04:11:35 pm"
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According to David Greenman: > >David Greenman wrote: > >> > >> > Now I'm even more at a loss re my upgrade to a K5 or K6 > >> > chip. Perhaps someone on the Core team--like you, David-- > >> > can give everybody advice on which CPU's do work flawlessly > >> > with BSD and which have known or suspected woes. > > > >Does the problem ONLY arise with BSD? > > > >> > I'm not referring to occasional defective chips, but to > >> > bad logic design. > > > >Problems from bad logic design usually arise at once. In this case, > >however, the problem arose after a certain period of time (in which I > >never made the world, BTW). This isn't usually due to a design flaw in > >the chip itself. > > You miss-attributed the above - I didn't write it. I think Gary Kline is > the author. > That's correct. Nevertheless, this is a valid question. Does anybody with a K6 chip have dos and gcc to try a large build on? I can't imagine that this defect happens only under Unix. But--- gary kline
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