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To: Paul Engel who wrote (37945)	10/2/1998 5:28:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) of 1572953

Paul, Who ever said the P-II crashed it? It was both the AMD 2-350 and the 333 pentium according to the article I posted. MSFT would never change the OS unless they admitted a flaw. However when this surfaced it was apparent that this(and other loops) might present problems. The Intel flaw occurred first and the AMD one later and it is not a chip flaw. In reality fixing the flaw was a joint effort between Intel and MSFT as AMD came late to show the flaw as they were late to 350 Mhz. How much repetition will you do to try and cover this fact that the flaw showed up first on the Intel part? In addition the give and take between the hardware makers and the software writers often solve such problems as these, if you note the huge number of pentium errata and patches. AMD has fewer as they were later to each chips and had the posted Intel flaws as guideposts. If AMD was first they would have the bigger errata lists? Bill

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