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From: joev@mikasa.WPI.EDU (Joseph W. Vigneau)
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Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Date: 16 Dec 1994 20:19:21 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Message-ID: <3csso9$q8a@bigboote.WPI.EDU>
References: <3cilp3$143@news-2.csn.net> <D0v8yu.LLx@indirect.com> <3cq6o4$pd9@bigboote.WPI.EDU> <tporczykD0wtr4.9s7@netcom.com>
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In article <tporczykD0wtr4.9s7@netcom.com>,
Tony Porczyk <tporczyk@netcom.com> wrote:
>joev@mikasa.WPI.EDU (Joseph W. Vigneau) writes:
>
>>wait a few months :). Look at Intel's current market. How many of them do
>>the hard core floating point stuff? A very small percentage... I haven't
>>noticed any flaws in my POVray raytrace output yet :)
>
>Don't insult my intelligence. I don't play computer games, don't have
>the time for it. I used to set up what-if scenarios for mortgage
>companies. That bug would be a killer there and would cost *real*
>people *real* money. There are many people who used Intel processors
>for serious business. As I recall the IBM computer with Intel
>processor was intended as a business computer. The fact that Intel sat
>on it for 6 months without telling anyone has totally destroyed any
>credibility that company ever had in my eyes.
Please reread that message.. Nowhere did I insult you or your intelligence.
I never said that the flaw wouldn't affect anybody. Of course there are
poeple who were doing hard core floating point stuff, that's how the bug was
found :) What I'm saying is that the bug won't be life threatening for
most people! There are lots of people out there (I'd guess the majority)
who use their computers for word processing and Doom, and won't notice the
error. This was my emphasis.
>>However, it's not like PowerPCs, MIPS, Sparcs, and Alphas are bug free
>
>Could you please provide some hard facts?
No, but it would be arrogant to believe that they don't contain any bugs at
all...
Lighten up. If you're this pissed, go and sue Intel... I'll just wait for
my free fixed chip.. This *is* however, the last chip i will buy from intel.
I would've bought an Alpha based machine if I had the cash, but they are
kinda pricey, especially on a college undergrad's budget, so I opted for
Intel, because there is no decent (and cheap) Unix for the PowerPC yet...
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