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To: Ali Chen who wrote (47110)	7/11/2001 2:01:26 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: "Also, there were some test escapes in the K6 past, and later AMD implemented an exhaustive burn-in program when _every_ CPU boots into Windows and runs a serious script of applications and data checking patterns at highly elevated temperatures" Gee...you knew about that for how many years - and kept it a SECRET from the AMDroids ?

To: Ali Chen who wrote (47110)	7/11/2001 2:32:21 PM
From: Yousef	Respond to of 275872

Ali, Re: " ... Also, there were some test escapes in the K6 past ..." Hmmmmmm, Test escapes ?? ... As I remember, AMD knew about these and shipped anyway. Here's some interesting reading --> Compaq to Cut 4,000 More Jobs "Lehman Brothers analyst Daniel Niles said Compaq's news, following warnings from chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE:AMD - news) and storage giant EMC, is troubling. ``You hear from EMC, AMD and now Compaq, and it starts to call into question a second-half (economic) recovery,'' Niles said." Niles doesn't sound too happy. Make It So, Yousef

To: Ali Chen who wrote (47110)	7/11/2001 3:10:02 PM
From: Neil Booth	Respond to of 275872

AMD implemented an exhaustive burn-in program when _every_ CPU boots into Windows and runs a serious script of applications and data checking patterns at highly elevated temperatures. The best test of a dodgy CPU / memory / chipset combo, bar none, is a GCC compilation of something tough, like GCC itself or the Linux kernel. It catches buggy hardware that pass all the other tests. I hope AMD and other manufacturers do this - it also has the advantage of not paying taxes to the U.S.'s secondary tax collector for an overvalued pile of crap. I think Intel found this out to their cost :-) Neil.