[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Program To Find Bug In 80386...

luis@grinch.UUCP (luis) (11/17/87)

Hello fellow net-landers,
     Because of all the requests via E-MAIL for me to post this program,
I decided to post it. 

     One user requested that I not post the program because of possibilites
that the bug/problem of the 386 is not with the archetecture of the chip,
but rather that the error could be caused by heat, environment, etc.  So,
to be fair to everyone, and the user, I promissed to post this notice...
 
     I do NOT have an 80386, so I have _NOT_ been able to test out the 
program in any way...  I just d/l it from a local BBS, so no guarentees...  
Please let me know if it works...  Thank You.. ENJOY!

     Now... Hhhhheeeerrreeee'sss the code!

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roger@celtics.UUCP (11/19/87)

In article <263@grinch.grinch.UUCP> luis@grinch.UUCP (luis) writes:
>     One user requested that I not post the program because of possibilites
>that the bug/problem of the 386 is not with the archetecture of the chip,
>but rather that the error could be caused by heat, environment, etc.

This is *not* what was being suggested.

Rather, *bad* chips will not always fail.  Good chips will pass, but barring
temperature stress, bad chips may pass too.
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davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) (11/24/87)

In article <1871@celtics.UUCP> roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
|In article <263@grinch.grinch.UUCP> luis@grinch.UUCP (luis) writes:
|>     One user requested that I not post the program because of possibilites
|>that the bug/problem of the 386 is not with the archetecture of the chip,
|>but rather that the error could be caused by heat, environment, etc.

luis, you misunderstood what I said... Intel did not deny that there is
a bug in the chip. When I posted the program to the 80386 mailing list,
Intel sent me E-mail saying
	1) this program will not identify most bad chips
	2) no program will identify most bad chips
	3) only hardware can reliably find bad chips
	4) if there was a program which found bad chips intel would
	   distribute it and use it in-house instead of an expensive
	   and time consuming hardware test.

Let me make it perfectly clear; the program doesn't work.  90+% of the
bad chips will pass this program. 

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