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

To: StockMan who wrote (37620)	9/29/1998 11:21:00 AM
From: Dr. Saeed Assadi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571405

StockMan, You might have shorted AMD but you are not offering any SUBSTANTIAL proof that the Microsoft fix is inadequate. Do you think that Boeing should recall all of their jets and refund the airliners? GM, Ford, Intel, IBM and Microsoft should refund their Customers for every "bug/flaw". As I said, EXCELLENT companies fix their mistakes. Be reasonable. Regards, sa

To: StockMan who wrote (37620)	9/29/1998 2:51:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571405

Microsoft is faulty, not the AMD chip. Note that the problem also only occurs in Windows 95 OSR2, which was not shipping when the K6 was released. My guess is that Microsoft used an integer divide instruction, which is EXTREMELY SLOW on a Pentium II, to time-out initiallization of the I/O system. What crapola and poor software design! BTW, on INTEGER ARITHMETIC, the Pentium II is much slower than the K6, check out the chess benchmarks someone posted a while back. Chances are a P2 overclocked to 600 MHz would have the same bug. Petz