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To: Scumbria who wrote (46563)	1/18/1999 6:34:00 PM
From: RDM	Respond to of 1572953

I never said that esoteric functions do not need to work. The fact is that in some chips they simply do not in some cases. The Intel Multiplication bug is just the most publicized case. Is multiply not an instruction? Did it not fail to work is some cases? It is the chip maker that tells the system designer that these are the minor instructions. This is not a new problem with chips and specifications. I have been involved in building systems for more than thirty years. The problem may be less severe today than in the past, but it still exists.