Xref: utzoo comp.sys.intel:1440 comp.arch:18801 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!gandalf.cs.cmu.edu!lindsay From: lindsay@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel,comp.arch Subject: Re: Intel bugs / bugged by Intel :-( Message-ID: <10884@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 27 Oct 90 19:06:53 GMT References: <1398@carol.fwi.uva.nl> <35322@cup.portal.com> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 15 In article <35322@cup.portal.com> mslater@cup.portal.com (Michael Z Slater) writes: >Intel and Motorola BOTH treat bug lists as confidential. As a customer, you >should be able to get bug lists from either, though you may have to sign an >NDA. I would ALWAYS insist on getting bug lists from a vendor if I was >starting a design with their chip, and I'd ask every month or two for the >updated version. In the above, you are clearly talking about the early-stepping bugs that plague a chip in its sample-quantity days. The original poster claimed to have just found a bug in the 386, which has been a volume item for qute some time now. Surely the situations are very different? -- Don D.C.Lindsay