Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!nsc!srm From: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian) Newsgroups: net.micro.16k Subject: Re: 32016 bug summary wanted... Message-ID: <1938@nsc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 08:03:36 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.1938 Posted: Sun Dec 2 08:03:36 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 05:38:28 EST References: <> Reply-To: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian) Distribution: net Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale Lines: 20 Summary: In article <693@sjuvax.UUCP> jss@sjuvax.UUCP (Jonathan Shapiro) writes: > > A lot of talk has been exchanged here about microcode bugs in the movsu >class of instructions. Recently I have heard that things are worse than >that and that a few groups of instructions are known to be buggy. > >P.S. I have heard the same about problems with the MMU. Any comments on >that one? If anyone can help me track down the source of this kind of rumor, I'd appreciate it. It goes beyond the limits of normal competitive give and take. Jonathan, the bug lists supplied with chips are accurate to the best of our ability to make them so. We don't hide or hold back anything. And while they've been serious in the past, the bugs in the current chips are few and easily avoided. -- Richard Mateosian {cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!srm nsc!srm@decwrl.ARPA