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To: Tito L. Nisperos Jr. who wrote (4368)	5/9/1997 8:31:00 PM
From: Gottfried	of 70976

Tito and all, re Intel flaw...no recall.... >>INTEL CORPORATION said its Pentium Pro and brand new Pentium II chips have a flaw that can cause personal computers to miscalculate in some circumstances. But the flaw, officially dubbed "The Flag Erratum" can be fixed easily with re-written software, Intel officials said. The company will not need to recall the chips, it said. Some investors feared the flaw could force the world's biggest chipmaker to replace tens of thousands of chips as Intel did in 1994 due to a defect in the original Pentium chip. The newly detected flaw occurs when some programs try to convert so-called floating point numbers, or decimal numbers, into integers. (Reuters 05:26 PM ET 05/09/97)

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