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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: mw fails even more...
In-Reply-To: <199707182335.QAA07388@athena.tera.com> from Gary Kline at "Jul 18, 97 04:35:45 pm"
To: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 19:17:05 -0500 (EST)
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> > >
> > >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---
> 
I am looking into the K6 specs just to see if they are doing somthing
to break our VM code.  It is VERY unlikely, but never know...

John