21 Oct
2019
21 Oct
'19
10:55 a.m.
On Sat, 19 Oct 2019, Michael Kjörling wrote:
If you want an example that might perhaps be easier to
relate to, on the
IBM PC, it wasn't until the Pentium that you could actually count on
having a floating-point unit available. [...]
Am I the only one who remembers the Defectium (as we called it)? Intel
denied the the problem until their noses got rubbed into it, after which
they instructed Sales to refuse replacements for any chip that failed
after using a demo program that demonstrated said defect, claiming that it
would hardly ever happen.
Err, would you fly on an aircraft designed by Defectiums? Or cross a
bridge, etc?
-- Dave