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

To: Paul Engel who wrote (37608)	9/29/1998 4:43:00 AM
From: PFRice	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572605

Uh, because the hardware is different? I mean that seriously. Yeah the K6-2 and P2 are X86 processors. But under the hood they are very different. I don't know how much hw/sw integration testing you have been involved with, but I've been on enough bug hunts to know that even seemingly insignificant differences in hardware can sometimes bring out unexpected software behaviors. Especially when it involves software timing loops. I don't know the details of this bug. You'd have to ask MSFT/AMD. But as with a lot of bugs that make it out this far, its probably some inobvious convoluted combination of things that bring out the behavior.