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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 18:44:51 -0600
To: dg@root.com, jwm@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: AMD K6 
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At 05:01 PM 7/13/97 -0700, dg@root.com wrote:
>   In tests here with a K6/166, I've been having some reliability problems
>that I've isolated to the CPU. The main symptom is that "make world" will
>stop with a random error. 

Have you tried the obvious controlled experiment: putting a Pentium into
the same motherboard?

--Brett Glass