kissell@spar.UUCP (Kevin Kissell) (12/14/84)
Miracle of miracles, I have an actual 32016 (not 16032!), revsion N2, to
experiment with. The stack pointer corruption problem is finally fixed!
If any of you have a simple test program for the MOVSU bug, send it to me
and I'll be happy to post the result to the net.
Kevin D. Kissell
Fairchild Advanced Processor Development
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{ucbvax sdcrdcf}!hplabs!/chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui[The Time Traveller]) (12/16/84)
>Miracle of miracles, I have an actual 32016 (not 16032!), revsion N2, to >experiment with. The stack pointer corruption problem is finally fixed! >If any of you have a simple test program for the MOVSU bug, send it to me >and I'll be happy to post the result to the net. The buglist I have shows that MOVSU is in fact fixed in N. I've been told to plan for Rev N (actually, Rev N5) parts to be used in future shipments of our hardware as soon as we can get them fully into production. These are 10MHz parts, too, folks-- they do exist, and I've seen them running. They are significant improvements over G and K, also. I've gotten an agreement (in principle) to let me post a set of known chip bugs for the Rev N parts as soon as I can cobble one together. There are a couple of flakes in it that we've found, but it is significantly improved over old silicon. And it actually looks like people will see them soon. (Gee, I'd sure love to see Motorola admit to the bugs in the 68020 and publish those... but then, from all I've heard, the 68020 is bug free. Just like the 32016). Keep tuned, for further info... chuq -- From behind the bar at Callahan's: Chuq Von Rospach {allegra,cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious... And Brutus is an honorable man