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To: Scumbria who wrote (68993)	11/23/1998 11:06:00 AM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, Re: "Companies like Compaq, HP, IBM, etc. put their systems through massive amounts of compatibility testing before they ship them. If there were any such issues, you wouldn't be seeing those brand names on AMD systems." Companies like those you mention also have to do field change order engineering changes on machines they design from the ground up themselves, i.e., including the CPU itself. It's impossible, make it impractical, to catch all problems before shipping...too many customer configurations to duplicate. That includes machines with proprietary CPUs, x86, or whatever CPU. Back to PCs, bugs that escape manufacturer's verification testing, and have to be found in the field, will typically be found earlier in systems using the "more popular" CPU. That is because there are more PCs being used with that chip, exposing those possible bugs, and then driving fixes. So, other things being equal, your chance of getting a design bug is less in the more popular machine. Another vote for buying from the leader. You didn't think I wouldn't turn this into an Intel plug, did you? Tony