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To: Yousef who wrote (37824)	9/30/1998 9:50:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570679

Yousef, <I don't think that the consumer really cares about whose fault it is ...> You are right on! The mass consumer gets their systems from reputable and other PC vendors, who supposed to take care if there is a problem, and ship a well "bootable" product. This is how a business of scale works. In any way, if you are doing an upgrade, you always do it on your own risk of system/BIOS/OS incompatibility.

To: Yousef who wrote (37824)	9/30/1998 12:24:00 PM
From: Dr. Saeed Assadi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570679

Dr. Yousef, Re:" . The discouraging part of this is that AMD knew about the incompatibility and shipped CPU's anyway." I am not a defender of AMD, the Box makers have also should share the blame of not providing Win-98 with the system they sell. Microsoft has clearly said that >100 win-95 bugs were fixed. How come we still see win-95 shipped to the poor consumer? Best regards, sa

To: Yousef who wrote (37824)	9/30/1998 1:01:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570679

I don't think that the consumer really cares about whose fault it is ... They just know that their computer and operating system needs to re-boot Yousef, Win95 is a piece of junk. Put IE4.0 on top of it and you have a full fledged virus. All this whining about the stability of Win95 on K6-2 is rather absurd. If you want stability, you need to have a real OS running on the computer. Scumbria

To: Yousef who wrote (37824)	10/4/1998 6:41:00 PM
From: Profits	Respond to of 1570679

Yousef, Maybe the K6-2/350 has uncovered a software timing loop problem in Win95. Big deal. A patch exists. This bug, which Microsoft has taken ownership of, doesn't have anything to do with AMD. It is a Microsoft problem. If you have a problem with the $35, take it up with Microsoft and not AMD. At least this bug didn't manifest itself in AMD silicon. And the last I checked, at least the K6-2/350 can calculate math properly. How quickly you forget about Intel's math flaw. Get off your podium loser! Profits