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To: Maxwell who wrote (37751)	9/29/1998 7:37:00 PM
From: Yousef	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572332

Maxwell, Re: "You haven't talked about the FPU bug on the Pentium ..." Maxwell, you seem to want to live in the past ... Do you think that AMD will offer to replace K6-2's with the problem ?? Make It So, Yousef

To: Maxwell who wrote (37751)	9/29/1998 9:25:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572332

Re: "You haven't talked about the FPU bug on the Pentium. Intel DENIED it ever existed. How stupid of them." I think you're wrong again Max. Intel said it wasn't likely to cause a problem more than once every 25,ooo years for an average user. They didn't deny it. In all, that bug cost Intel $500 Million (and Vin Dham). The fact is that AMD introed a product which they knew caused system locks and AMD had no known fix at the time of intro. They kept quiet, hoping nobody would notice. Now I ask you, what would motivate a company to make such a high risk decision? A decision make at the very time when AMD's competitor had just introduced a processor that was 117 mhz faster than AMD's top of the line offering. The largest performance gap in the x86 industry history. What do you think might motivate a desperate company to make such a bad decision? Any ideas??? EP