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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