Pentium Probs
04-Jan-95 00:13:55
Sb: #180211-Pentium Probs
Fm: Robert Little 72567,677
To: J Saperstein/FontBank 75300,632
Jerry,
One Pentium could be considered a handful.
Let's send this horse to the rendering plant…
Even though I think that Intel made a bad move in producing and selling a
CPU they knew was bad and then made a bigger mistake by not offering a
free replacement to anyone with one (and I love it!) I don't think it's
that big a deal. Although, I don't feel that there is any excuse for it.
I think that they really have done a lot of damage just because of the
media hype that ensued due to a few poor decisions.
My main point was that the sudden media surge will leave a mark in peoples
minds and in the future they may think about it when it comes to someone
doing work for them on a Pentium machine. It may also cast a shadow of
doubt on that company. Whether or not that software is doing FDIVs.
Then again you really never know how the program is coded.
Robb