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To: Petz who wrote (40103)	11/12/1997 6:55:00 AM
From: Fred Fahmy	Read Replies (1) of 186894

Putz, techweb.com "Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has disclosed on its Web site (www.amd.com/K6/k6docs/revgd.html) a number of bugs in its K6 processor that could cause unpredictable system behavior or math errors under rare conditions. Several of the bugs have no immediate software fixes available and will be corrected in future manufacturing revisions. In one case involving the floating-point unit, the company has identified six source and destination operand patterns that erroneously result in a zero when performing multiply operations." I think it's fairly obvious that many more serious AMD bugs would be uncovered if their chips were used in more than a handful of systems. Care to show me one real life example (other than people intentionally crashing their own system) where the latest Intel "bug" has caused anyone any problems. After years and years of Pentium use, I haven't heard of a single incident have you?? Here are some facts to consider. All CPU's are highly complex products and all have bugs. Intel CPU's continue to generate tremendous profit and cash. AMD CPU's are non-profitable and the company is a money losing machine. FF

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