Path: utzoo!attcan!sobmips!uunet!cpqhou!waltc
From: waltc@cpqhou.UUCP (Walt Croom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Compaq finds problem with chip
Message-ID: <486@cpqhou.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 89 06:00:00 GMT
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In article <1418@starfish.Convergent.COM> jerry@starfish.Convergent.COM (Gerald Hawkins) writes:
>Even having worked at a place where it was possible to release a computer
>with a major bug known, I still don't see how you can do it!  Why would
>any customer buy a PC with a known bug?  They'll have to release some dog
>version of BIOS which looks for the killer instructions, slowing down all
>FP operations.  
>
>Comment?  Anybody from Compaq out there?  Anybody going to buy a new
>Compaq '486 machine even knowing the '486 has a floating point bug?

Not to worry - we will ship the updated chip in our '486 products, not the 
ill-fated B4 step chip.

Walt Croom
Compaq Computer Corp.
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