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To: James A. Shankland who wrote (39839)	11/10/1997 3:17:00 PM
From: John Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

James, thanks for the response. Now, I would have nothing to say about Intel if what you said is correct. There got to be a way to protect your system from the OS. I hear what you said but I don't want to believe this could happen. Well, it isn't that difficult to fix, Intel is getting out of classice pentium anyway.

To: James A. Shankland who wrote (39839)	11/10/1997 4:02:00 PM
From: StockMan	Respond to of 186894

james, Re -- IMO, this is a much bigger flaw than the FP bug. This is debatable. Which would you prefer certainity (the current bug) vs uncertainity (the FP problem) about the results of major compution. The FP bug caused indeterminate results, and pretended to work well while mistakes were made in its scientific computations. This could go unnoticed and cause much more serious effects elsewhere. This bug is a determinate. (i.e one knows when it happens). Its similar to virus (requires a malicious programmer), which exploit bugs in the operating systems, and also have similar effects. My guess is that Intel is evaluating the impact of this problem and will come up with a solution. Stockman