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To: Tony Viola who wrote (46553)1/27/1998 6:40:00 PM
From: Ali Chen  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
<I was talking about manufacturing defects, not design bugs..>
You have no idea what are you talking about. Yeld problems and
long-term reliabilty problems are very different things. If chip
works, it works. Period.
(disclaimer for Intelpurists: some variantions may apply)



To: Tony Viola who wrote (46553)1/27/1998 9:53:00 PM
From: Elmer  Respond to of 186894
 
Tony, AMD posts their bugs on their website. The K6 has a FPU bug that is very much like the famous FDIV bus. It returns erronous data.

EP


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