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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!hubcap!hubcap
- From: hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (System Janitor)
- Subject: Re: FPU errors on 5000/240
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.142326.14467@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Organization: Clemson University
- References: <1992Nov10.161523.20950@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1992Nov18.201537.11370@mother.bates.edu> <1992Nov18.221158.889@olaf.wellesley.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:23:26 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- lhawkins@olaf.wellesley.edu (Lee Hawkins) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Nov18.201537.11370@mother.bates.edu> rob@mother.bates.edu (Rob Spellman) writes:
- >>He didn't have a software test for this problem. Instead, he looked
- >>at the revision of the daughter board. His notes state that anybody
- >>with rev b01 or greater will not have the floating point problem.
-
- >This isn't quite correct. Our box had a rev B01 board that did have the
- >problem. It was replaced today. However, our base numbers are
- >different:
- > 50-something B01
- > ^^
-
- This is getting confusing. Sid at ULTRIX support said that my FPU was OK
- when I told him I had read 50-20626-01 B01 off of it. I have someone here
- who has months of work invested on one of our DECstations, and he
- won't graduate, as planned, in December if the DECstation has been
- generating random numbers instead of floating point calculations. Can someone
- at DEC give me the straight poop?
-
- -Mike
-