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To: Elmer who wrote (46549)	1/18/1999 5:13:00 PM
From: RDM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572777

I understand now your intention. Certainly the K7 is not now a product. It only takes ten weeks to fab. I would suspect that most of the major instructions work, but I bet they are still debugging some of the more esoteric ones! The X86 instruction set has a number of these rarely used instructions. New designs go through phases: 1. Partly working (good for support chip design) 2. Mostly working (good for most demos) 3. Product grade working (some of the unnecessary features may not work). I would suspect, but do not know, that the K7 is somewhere close to mostly working rather than partly. Mostly working requires common demos to nearly all work which was clearly not true for Comdex 98. It could surprise some to know that all Intel and AMD cpus have many minor "bugs". These are sometimes circulated to OEMS as "secret" data.