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  3. From: lhawkins@olaf.wellesley.edu (Lee Hawkins)
  4. Subject: Re: FPU errors on 5000/240
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov18.221158.889@olaf.wellesley.edu>
  6. Organization: Wellesley College
  7. References: <1992Nov10.161523.20950@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1992Nov18.201537.11370@mother.bates.edu>
  8. Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:11:58 GMT
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  11. In article <1992Nov18.201537.11370@mother.bates.edu> rob@mother.bates.edu (Rob Spellman) writes:
  12. >Our DEC Field Engineer came out this afternoon to see whether or not
  13. >we had the floating point problem.
  14. >
  15. >He didn't have a software test for this problem.  Instead, he looked
  16. >at the revision of the daughter board.  His notes state that anybody
  17. >with rev b01 or greater will not have the floating point problem.
  18.  
  19. This isn't quite correct.  Our box had a rev B01 board that did have the
  20. problem.  It was replaced today.  However, our base numbers are
  21. different:
  22.     50-something B01
  23.     ^^
  24.  
  25. Cheers,
  26. --Lee
  27. ________________________________________________________________________________
  28. R. Lee Hawkins                     lhawkins@annie.wellesley.edu
  29. Department of Astronomy                 lhawkins@lucy.wellesley.edu
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  35. >Rob Spellman
  36. >rob@mother.bates.edu
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