[Info-vax] OT: news from the trenches (re: Solaris)

[seasoned_geek]

On Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 7:30:35 PM UTC-5, David Froble wrote:
> johnson.eric at gmail.com wrote:
> > On Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 5:23:27 PM UTC-4, seasoned_geek wrote:
> > 
> >> Actually wasn't it the 486? Rather than dump the chips with the problem
> >> they cut some pins/lines and the 486SX was born.
> > 
> > Perhaps you are thinking of this one 
> > 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
> > 
> > EJ
> 
> Yes, that one.  The key thing to me was Intel's "so what" attitude. 
> Apparently it was important to others also.

I guess we are both correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80486SX

"All early 486SX chips were actually i486DX chips with a defective FPU. "