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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer who wrote (26028)	11/16/1997 5:50:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583484

Elmer; You are right about the non factor of the bug. Way back when the first bug appeared in the 386/486? we got about one customer in 100 who got the free replacement. Large networks went with the MSI and either all or none did it depending on his ear to ground etc. All the nerd speedsters did it, and took delight in demonstrating the flaw. I have heard about field programmable internal code?, is that the core microcode that can do that, or is there an external section that can be accessed to watch for the bug and insert the pathc on the fly, albeit far slower. This in rewriteable EEPROMs that I did not think could match CPU speeds.? So you get a ten cycle+? 'deep think' as this comes in to play.? Bill