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From: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Message-ID: <1994Dec18.040018.13455@mole-end.matawan.nj.us>
Summary: Wrong city
Organization: :
References: <3cilp3$143@news-2.csn.net> <3clp1c$q6p@news.iastate.edu> <D0x1u1.Av9@indirect.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 1994 04:00:18 GMT
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In article <D0x1u1.Av9@indirect.com>, wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes) writes:
> In article <D0v8yu.LLx@indirect.com>, I wrote:
> > I don't see how Intel could deserve such a "raw deal" more.  Every
> > chip line they've produced in recent history has been dumped onto
> > the market with known bugs, simply because they were sure the
> > average DOS user wouldn't notice it.
 
> Joseph W. Vigneau (joev@mikasa.WPI.EDU) wrote:
> : So, if the average DOS user never becomes a victim of the bug, what harm is
> : done?
 ...
> And what if one of those small percentage of users causes your bank
> balance to be off?  Or drops a satellite into New York City?  Well,
> OK, that wouldn't be much of a loss...

Wrong city.  You want the one where Intel is headquartered.  Now, where
is that ....
-- 
 (This man's opinions are his own.)
 From mole-end				Mark Terribile
 mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
	(Training and consulting in C, C++, UNIX, etc.)