On 16 Jan 1998 22:14:19 GMT 
 tron@lyssa.owl.de (Matthias Scheler) wrote:

 > I agree that this kind of bugs exist. But reading his bug report I had
 > the impression that his fix was kludge to give his poor overstressed
 > hardware time to recover. The 337 MHz indicates that he's not only
 > overclocking the CPU but the system bus so that any kind of failures
 > of the I/O hardware are a logical consequence. I really would like to
 > know if the bug can be reproduced on a system without overclocked bus
 > speed.

Let me address this, now... say I have an NE2000 in a 533MHz Alpha (quite
plausible, although stupid :-) ... even though I'm not overclocking the
hardware, I could still run into this problem simply because the countdown
loop would expire too quickly.

If a comment in a piece of code says "wait 5ms", the code should take some
measures to make sure it waits at least that long.

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