greg@uunet.uu.net (Greg Wohletz) (08/15/89)
Our 25 Sparcstations arrived last friday. With each CPU the following note was included: Dear SPARCstation 1 Customer, A small number of SPARCstation 1 machines will exhibit a problem when invoking Sun Common Lisp. The symptom of this problem is that Sun Common Lisp will dump core when you invoke it. The problem is due to a bug in some SPARC IU chips that do not support an infrequently used machine instruction. This machine instruction is not used by any other application, compiler, or software product from Sun other than Sun Common Lisp. The problem is well understood and a fix has been implemented. It will be corrected on al new SPARCstation 1 SPARC IU's, but a small number are being shipped prior to the availability of the fixed parts. If you are a Sun Common Lisp user and are experiencing this problem, please call 1-800-USA-4SUN and ask for Hardware Support or if located outside of the United States, contact your local Sun service organization or Sun Distributor to arrange to have a new SPARC IU installed free of charge. All units shipped with this bug are being tracked and the SPARC IU's will be upgraded during the next six months free of charge. We don't currently intend to run Sun Common Lisp, but I definately want to make sure that I obtain the fix for all of our CPU's with this problem. So, does anyone know what the problem is? Does anyone have a short assembly language program that will test for the problem? Or, does anyone know the range of serial numbers that are effected? Thanks, Greg
datri@uunet.uu.net (08/22/89)
-X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 96, message 9 of 15 -A small number of SPARCstation 1 machines will exhibit a problem when -invoking Sun Common Lisp. The symptom of this problem is that Sun Common -Lisp will dump core when you invoke it. Oddly enough, I got one of these in a 3/80 box.