CompuServe Thread

Here are some recent quotes from Gary regarding 3DS and then I've included a statement regarding ACAD….. ———————————- The Pentium floating point bug does NOT affect 3DS at all, and I don't even think it's likely that anyone would ever run into it with AutoCAD within their lifetimes. Don't worry about it and get a P90. – G The Pentium glitch should only show up in double-precision floating point operations. Since 3DS only does single-precision ops, it shouldn't affect you in the slightest. – G ——————————— Autodesk, Inc. 12/07/1994 AutoCAD and INTEL's Pentium Floating Point Flaw Intel has been shipping Pentium chips for almost two years. The majority of Autodesk CAD products use double-precision floating point math, including all AutoCAD releases such as Release 12, AutoCAD LT, AutoSketch Release 2.0, and all products that run on top of AutoCAD like AutoCAD Designer, AutoSurf, AutoVision, and AutoCAD Data Extension. To date Autodesk is not aware of any customer having a problem due to the reported floating point unit flaw in the Pentium chip. And based on the information provided to us so far by Intel, we believe it is unlikely that any Autodesk customer will be affected by it. Although we believe this situation to be receiving more attention than it deserves, we will continue to monitor it, and we will take action as necessary to help alleviate this problem for our customers. Cary Fulbright Strategic Marketing CAD Autodesk, Inc.