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To: kash johal who wrote (94348)	2/20/2000 2:09:00 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 1576881

Re: We live in an asynchronous world and such systems get tested thoroughly all the time Good point, though it was fun to try to conceptualize race conditions inside the ALU and bus-snooping units as voltage and temperature varied (and beyond me, at least). On the other hand, thoroughly testing the 820/840 chipsets seems to have been presenting something of a challenge, for one reason or another. Elmer could easily rebut your comment by saying "Oh yeah? Then why can't Intel design a qualifying test for the 820/840?", but I don't think he will. <VBG> Even when using the MTH, I believe Rambus's asynchronous bus is in the loop (it's been such a terrific, robust design so far, I can't understand why everyone isn't just ecstatic about having to pay royalties for it). Could there be more to this issue than meets the eye? Regards, Dan