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Re: Intel bugs / bugged by Intel :-(

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From: Vernon Schryver
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 1990 18:47
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In article <35431@cup.portal.com>, mslater@cup.portal.com (Michael Z Slater) writes:
> ...
>The position of most companies is that their customers get the lists, ...


Hah!   --expletives deleted--

My personal experience with AMD in the last 18 months has been that if I
find 1 bug and my AMD FAE and I are persistent about it, then AMD will
eventually deign to confirm the problem exists and to reward me with one or
two more bugs in an old bug list.  For one 29K characteristic (it won't be
changed so it is not a bug), it took enormous effort for months from a lot
of people to get AMD to admit that concern was warrented and to get the
easy work-around.  I have had similar recent and ancient experiences with
INTEL.  I don't recall any difference between the two companies in this
regard.

I think the problem is not a matter corporate nastiness, but of the
familiar human reluctance to admit errors.  People who find problems with
my code might say nasty things about my enthusiasm for agreeing with them.


Vernon Schryver,    vjs@sgi.com
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