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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Intel bugs / bugged by Intel :-(
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Date: 28 Oct 90 05:10:00 GMT
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> 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.

What we need is a Ralph Nader or Mike Wallace/60 Minutes Team to STOP
THIS PRACTICE.  It is downright stupid.  Today more than ever people
are working on languages that depend on dynamic code generation for
speed and correctness.  Without a list of these instruction sequence
bugs, these language implementations are in great peril.

Don W. Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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