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

To: Badger who wrote (41372)	11/13/1998 9:20:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571806

Badger, your joke was good, but I fail to recognize who would be those two hikers. Then, <How many times has AMD had to release a fix or patch for a problem that occurs only when you try to run an application on an AMD chip?> And exactly how many times AMD has discovered a hidden defect in your software? You seem to be a programmer. Let me ask you, why would programmers put several NOPs here and there, or use JMP to next instruction, or use OUT anything to a dummy I/O register? Because otherwise it DOES NOT WORK ON PENTIUMS! This is a hack around Intel's processor deficiencies, or a tribute for "compatibility" with older, same Intel processors. What makes you think that an alternative x86 execution engine like AMD K6 is more flawfull than your Pentium if it executes NOPs or LOOPs somewhat faster? I think programmers must be thankful to AMD for making their software products cleaner. <It's a perception problem that AMD has to overcome,> This is an education problem you programmers have to overcome and to learn how to write processor-independent software. The Windows95 I/O initialization failure has also been observed on higher speed P-II as well. <and the only way to do that is to come out with dependable, reliable, compatible silicon on a timely basis.> You mean compatible with all FOOF, FDIV, "Flag", and other 70+ "errata" on Pentiums?