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To: Gopher Broke who wrote (19990)	11/21/2000 9:17:20 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"Do we know what Intel were trying to fix and whether it fixed it? " According to the discussion on JC's BBS, there are some of the processor errata that can be worked around in the BIOS. Now it seems that at least one of those patches could have a performance hit...

To: Gopher Broke who wrote (19990)	11/21/2000 9:26:55 AM
From: dhellman	Respond to of 275872

Why didn't they just admit that they needed to patch the BIOS to fix a last-minute bug? Feeling rather naive here, thinking only that the chip was being blamed for a BIOS screw-up and just glad to see INTC being treated like an "AMD". Had not actually considered this was a pure cock-up! d