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

To: Ali Chen who wrote (41416)	11/13/1998 1:32:00 PM
From: Badger	Respond to of 1571896

No, I'm not a programmer, Ali. But I play one on TV! Actually, I'm a writer/online help developer, so I work with programmers all the time. I can assure you that they have all they can do to create usable code and don't have time to put in little booby traps that make software fail on non-Intel architecture. That said, we don't go out of our way to test and certify for anything other than Intel chips, either. You mean compatible with all FOOF, FDIV, "Flag", and other 70+ "errata" on Pentiums? If that's what passes for industry standard these days, yep. Look, you'll get no argument from me that the de facto standards in the computer industry today - Microsoft OS, Intel CPU, pick your poison - aren't the best or most useful standards available. I was one of the Mac faithful until that battle was lost. Yeah, it may just be a matter of educating programmers and businesses and the like to support AMD products - or what you call 'processor-independent software.' But that's the hurdle I was talking about AMD having to clear. Intel certainly isn't going to (intentionally) help them do this. I've got no gripe with AMD and I have no experience with their products. I'm just looking at the marketplace and giving my opinion, and from what I see AMD, Cyrix et al have a lot of catching up to do. Regards, Badger