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From: mbundy@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Michael Bundy)
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Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Date: 20 Dec 1994 08:20:29 -0600
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References: <3cilp3$143@news-2.csn.net> <3clp1c$q6p@news.iastate.edu> <3cphs0$l6e@ddi2.digital.net> <D0v8yu.LLx@indirect.com>
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In article <D0v8yu.LLx@indirect.com>, Barnacle Wes <wes@indirect.com> wrote:
>I don't see how Intel could deserve such a "raw deal" more. Every
>chip line they've produced in recent history has been dumped onto
>the market with known bugs, simply because they were sure the
>average DOS user wouldn't notice it. Remember back to the "double
>Sigma" 386 chips? My brother got nailed on that one - bought an
>$8000 Everex machine to run ISC UNIX, only to find that it wouldn't
>run due to a flawed single-Sigma 386 chip. Intel IMHO has always
>felt that the unwashed masses are too stupid to notice their lack
>of quality and attention to detail.
Have any of you noticed how the other CPU manufacturers have stayed silent
during all of this? Ever wonder why? Could they have bugs in their
processors too? Doesn't this seem like the perfect time for the PowerPC
folks to really turn up the heat? I cannot imagine why they would not...
Could PowerPC have bugs? How about MIPS? Alpha maybe?
Michael
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Michael B. Bundy mbundy@neosoft.com
"I hate computers" mbundy@bcm.tmc.edu