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

To: Elmer who wrote (37770)	9/29/1998 9:41:00 PM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572362

Elmer: <<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.>> You are wrong Elmer. You were too young to remember then. Initially Intel denied it. Later they restated "it wasn't likely to cause a problem more than once every 25,ooo years for an average user" after people raised hell. You can ask the high priest. He has very good memory. <<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???>> Have you ever considered that the bug is the software bug in Windows95? Probably not because you don't want to. MS engineers who wrote the OS admitted so. news.com "The flaw only manifests itself intermittently and comes as a result of a mismatch between processor frequency and the software timing loop. The problem is not an inherent flaw to the processor. In fact, the problem resides in Windows 95, according to Microsoft engineers, although it manifests itself only on certain processors." But NO......, Elmer has to be smarter than MS engineers. The MS engineers must be wrong. It must be a bug, got to find something wrong with AMD, K6-2 is killing PII ASP, YES IT HAS TO BE A BUG! Maxwell