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To: Petz who wrote (84306)	12/29/1999 3:23:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) of 1572510

Re: "The BIOS can be used to fix only a small minority of errata. Specifically, the Coppermine has 45 unfixed errata according to the latest "specification update." Of these 45, the update says that it is "possible" to fix three of them via the BIOS. " I don't argue that. You missed the context in which we were discussing the Athlon. Bill's claim was that the Athlon is perfect and errata free and he offered as proof the fact that there are no publicly known bugs. I was pointing out that there could still be bugs that are masked by bios workarounds, thus none are currently seen by the public. In any case, it has been pointed out by others that no modern complex design is errata free and to claim that the Athlon is perfect is naive. It is a given that all processors have some errata and the refusal of AMD to publish the Athlon errata list only gives rise to speculation that there may be many "workarounds" in place. Why do you suppose there are no SMP Athlons? It's almost certainly because of bugs in the design. You might argue then that's it's to AMD's credit that they withhold the Athlon from that market until the bugs are fixed. EP

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