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From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: in Time, again
Message-ID: <45573@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 11 Oct 90 17:19:30 GMT
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In article <8978@helios.TAMU.EDU> mcguire@cs.tamu.edu (Tim McGuire) writes:
>Fellow NeXTer madler@piglet.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:
>>
>>WHAT?!  You mean I'm going to be getting an 040 with a bug?  INTENTIONALLY??
>>I don't like the sound of this at all.
...
>IMHO, a bug in a processor is somewhat disconcerting, but if everyone involved
>was aware of what not to do to set it off, when doing low level stuff, then
>it might not be so bad.

I hope this is not true. If it were, then presumably at some point
NeXT machines would be coming out without the bug in silicon. At that
point it becomes possible that a programmer who doesn't have the
bug will write some useful software that uses the affected op-code,
and, of course, that software would not function properly on machines
with the bug.