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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (81825)	12/2/1999 8:44:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1572326

Tenchu, The bug is in fact a minor thing and right now is being fixed by the waste basket method of trying each CPU to see if it has the problem and throwing them out. As to the % bad?? how will we ever find that out unless Intel/Dell or others tell us. Does it happen only with Dell power supplies? or do others have the same problem. The main effect it has had is to suddenly make AMD a viable second choice for people who were suddenly faced with the risk of no parts for Christmas season....so they bought some AMD parts....surprise, they work very well, load and run faster than coppermines and now they are there to stay, becuse once in the tech people tell the bosses that the AMD parts are excellent. As they say. "Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.....together again" AMD has been humbled in the marketplace many times before, Intel once before(first Pentium bug), and now again, showing that they cannot make good parts under pressure, and will sell out to desperate expediency too. Now all OEMs will keep the door open to AMD permanently. How do you make them go back to the farm after they have seen Paris? Bill