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To: chic_hearne who wrote (34722)	8/27/2000 3:21:34 AM
From: Prognosticator	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

As a mad guess I'd say the installed base of Pentiums for those errata is 21.5 times larger than AMD Athlons. It's possible that some wierd multithreading issues are only revealed on certain hardware, that's the nature of the beast. But, if AMD had done a perfect job of implementing Pentium ISA compatibility then Windows would crash as often on it as on Intel. Windows is an OS for which poor tradeoffs have been made over a long period of time: trading benchmark speed for robustness, etc. Windows 2000 (Professional) is actually the closest Microsoft have ever come to creating a robust desktop OS, but it still BSODAR's (Blue Screen Of Death and Reboot, you don't even see the register dumps this time) and no OS should ever do that, unless of course the memory chips are defective :)) P.