Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!woton!riddle From: riddle@woton.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Does the AT&T 6386 suffer from the 80386 + 80387 + paging bug? Message-ID: <1072@woton.UUCP> Date: 5 Jul 88 19:00:48 GMT Organization: Shriners Burns Institute, Galveston Lines: 18 Foo-Processor: "Bob" According to discussion I've seen on the net, the current release of the 80386 chip contains a bug which can cause a machine to crash when it is paging and doing floating point operations on an 80387 math co-processor. Some vendors of '386 boxes have come up with hardware fixes to get around this problem. Does anyone know what the status of the AT&T 6386 is in relation to this matter? Our local tech people haven't been able to find any reference to the problem, which may mean either that AT&T found and fixed it early on, or that AT&T still hasn't dealt with it. Since we're in the process of buying a 6386 with a '387, we'd like to know... Please reply by mail and I will summarize. -- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") -- Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer. -- riddle%woton.uucp@cs.utexas.edu uunet!ut-sally!cs.utexas.edu!woton!riddle