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To: "Mike Burgett" <mburgett@cmnsens.zoom.com>
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Subject: Re: K6 - New results.. 
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 16 Aug 1997 16:28:08 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 20:20:32 -0700
From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@mina.sr.hp.com>
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> Ok, I got my replacement K6-200 yesterday, after the distributor tried to say
> there was nothing wrong with the old chip (because they couldn't make it fail
> running windoze for a couple of hours... :(

[ Sorry if this is old news, but I haven't seen this mentioned, yet. ]

     Just FYI, a Linux user has a page claiming that K6 systems with
more than 32MB RAM exhibit "signal 11" problems:

	http://www.creaweb.fr/bpc/k6bug.html

Instructions for "reproducing" the problem on either Linux or WinNT are
given (although "make world" is probably good enough as anything ;-).

     -- Darryl Okahata
	Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com

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