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#3DS &Pentium

    25-Dec-94 01:20:17
Sb: #142911-#3DS &Pentium
Fm: John Schmidt 71242,2366
To: Syndesis 76004,1763
John, >> Why have people gotten so up in arms about a hardware bug, when no one sneezes when Windows crashes I think the biggest reason is that people *expect* software to have bugs, but the fact that it was easy to prove that most $10 calculators could provide a correct answer to calculations that their $4000 Pentiums floundered on is what riled most users. If they hadn't been able to so easily prove this fact for themselves, I'm sure it would have been mostly only theoretical mathematicians that would have been concerned. John