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Re: Origin - CD-only forever!

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From: gme... GM Enierga
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 1994 11:38
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Ni...@tungle.demon.co.uk (Nick Hadlow) writes:
>In article <3artkb$2...@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>
>           gme...@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au "GM Enierga" writes:
>> r...@gasco.com (Ron Christian x5545) writes:
>> >In article <toma.78...@expert.cc.purdue.edu> to...@expert.cc.purdue.edu
>>  (Duke Toma) writes:
>>> <snip> (Yes, I know that the Pentium
>> >chip has better floating point.  Name two games that use it.)
>> >                               Ron

>>         Not to disagree to your post, but the answer to you question is
>> "Falcon 3.0" and some (if not all) of the "V for Victory" games.
>>                                                         - Falcon

>Hope they don't fall foul of the Pentium FPU bug . . . Intel are still
>keeping quiet about this tho' they apparently _will_ swap your Pentium
>if you've got a bad one. 
>| Nick Hadlow                ||"Et semel emissum volat irrevocabile      ||

	I hear they will only swap it if you are an academic or student or
something where the FPU reliability will hamper YOU severely... Unfortunately
I do not think they mean us "game-playing-mortals-who-sometimes-do-work"...
	I don't know, it's what someone here wrote.

							- Falcon
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Subject: Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
Date: 5 Dec 1994 11:38:41 GMT
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