#Pentium math
They may not be shipping in volume, but they are shipping. I was just bouncing
over in the NewTek group, and there was discussion of how the Pentium bug would
affect Lightwave. Frankly, there aren't many programs other than Lightwave
that I'm worried about, since developers try to avoid floating point for
performance. Anyway, one of the people there said that they had just purchased
five new Pentiums, and none of them had the defective chip. Also, one of the
NewTek guys chimed in to say that the algorithms Lightwave uses won't hit the
Pentium math bug.
If Lightwave's not going to hit it, I'm not that worried about the whole thing.
Of course, I will be checking with Micron when I buy my machine to see what
their policy is to replace the chip. While it may be an incredibly rare
problem, I don't particularly won't to fork over 3,600 for a machine whose
processor has "an incredibly rare problem." 🙂
-R