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From: joev@mikasa.WPI.EDU (Joseph W. Vigneau)
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Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Date: 16 Dec 1994 20:26:18 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Message-ID: <3cst5a$rdd@bigboote.WPI.EDU>
References: <3cilp3$143@news-2.csn.net> <D0v8yu.LLx@indirect.com> <3cq6o4$pd9@bigboote.WPI.EDU> <D0x1u1.Av9@indirect.com>
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In article <D0x1u1.Av9@indirect.com>, Barnacle Wes <wes@indirect.com> wrote:
>
>The galling part is not that they make mistakes, everyone does,
>but that they hide it for so long, and then just brush it off when
>confronted. It would seem they've been taking lessons from GM and
>FoMoCo.
>
>: Besides, this one was just widely publicized. Granted, Intel shouldn't have
>: kept it quiet for all this time, and they'll be bitten for it.. However,
>: it's not like PowerPCs, MIPS, Sparcs, and Alphas are bug free, too.....
>
>Facts? Figures? Errata sheets? Yah, the 603 had some flaws,
>but Moto owned up to it, agreed to fix the problem, and went back
>to silicon ASAP. What Alpha bugs? What Sparc bugs? The R4000
>and R4400 have seemed pretty solid so far, too. Oh, excuse me,
>this posting was just mindless Intel apologism, wasn't it. You
>don't need to substantiate anything, just state that Intel is no
>worse than anyone else.
I'm pissed that they didn't tell anyone.. As I said, this is the last chip i
buy from them.. What they should have done is immediatley halted production,
and fixed the problem before selling 4 million of them. The posting wasn't
entirely "mindless Intel apologism", I was just mentioning that the bug
won't affect most users... And, as I'd said before, if I had the cash, I
would've got an Alpha box...
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