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To: Elmer who wrote (41927)	11/19/1998 9:39:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572942

Elmer, We should all demand AMD recall these bug infested processors immediately!!!!! I had a good week at work so far. I've only had to reboot my PII/Windows NT system once (so far.) Scumbria

To: Elmer who wrote (41927)	11/19/1998 10:40:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572942

350 "bug": Just downloaded the 350 patch from hardware.pairnet.com Just for fun I compared the old binaries with the super-patch. Results: the two files differ in a single byte only, at byte location 36B5: Old bad IOS.VxD contains code 90 (=NOP), New patched VxD contains code 41 (=INC EAX)! Microsoft did a really hard "job". The piece of code actually is trying to get timer difference before and after a 1,000,000 LOOP to itself command, and to fix the timing problem they incremented something. The next byte is also NOP, so we can be sure that there is a room for one more INC command to fix the next "ourage" when K6 hits 600MHz...