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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (20452)	9/30/1999 2:41:00 AM
From: Prognosticator	Respond to of 64865

Sounds plausible. Maybe I was too hasty in blaming Microsoft. But I still won't believe that a brand-new 8-way architecture is fully debugged until it has been hammered on for a year or more in the field. Its just the nature of the beasts. P.

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (20452)	9/30/1999 2:49:00 AM
From: Prognosticator	Respond to of 64865

Wait a minute. So the only reason the thing with a larger cache works is that the cache is loading the power-supply bus. What kind of a design is that? On further reflection the BSOD (blue screen of death) indicates that there is something that Microsoft should be able to do to avoid this kind of crash. There is simply no excuse for rapid halting a CPU, and dumping the registers to a video driver. If the system is able to do at least that much, it should damn well keep going. I restate my blaming of Microsoft. P.