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- From: pss1@kepler.unh.edu (Paul S Secinaro)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
- Date: 27 Dec 1992 16:02:11 GMT
- Organization: University of New Hampshire - Durham, NH
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- References: <jbickers.0m08@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1992Dec26.205020.14463@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <jbickers.0m4q@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
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- In article <jbickers.0m4q@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
- >> John Bickers (jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
- >
- >> : PKZIP, the program that has been held up for a long period because
- >> : of hardware bugs in '486 machines? GOOD example.
- >
- >> No, the one that's been out for a while, Version 1.1. And yes, it is a
- >> good example.
- >
- > Does 1.1 contain '486 specific code, eh? I know 2.0 is supposed
- > to, but 1.1 is so old that I thought it only knew up to the 386.
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- If I remember correctly (it's been a while since I've followed
- comp.compression), the problems with PKZIP 2.0 only occurs in certain
- 486 motherboards. It's got something to do with DMA and external
- cache coherency, but it isn't a problem with the 486 chip.
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- Paul
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- Paul Secinaro
- pss1@kepler.unh.edu
- Synthetic Vision and Pattern Analysis Laboratory
- UNH Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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