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In <3cvat7$g...@mack.rt66.com> s...@mack.rt66.com (Scott Amspoker) writes:

>In article <3cojg3$6...@news.doit.wisc.edu> l...@cae.wisc.edu (Leo Lim) writes:
>>[Hurry!  Signature gathering for this petition EXPIRES January 15, 1995!]

>How ironic this was posted to a newsgroup for Doom - one of the countless
>applications not affected by the FDIV bug.

Very true.  But it's so fashionable to complain and rant, why not?

>>1) That you will offer a free replacement Pentium processor (which has been
>>   updated so as to fix the FDIV design flaw without slowing down FPU
>>   performance) to any owner of a FDIV-flawed Pentium processor who requests
>>   a replacement, with *no questions asked*, and with *no exceptions*.  In
>>   addition, you will make it easy, logistically, for the requester to obtain
>>   the replacement processor, and you will pay all reasonable costs for
>>   effecting the replacement.
   Oh, like having some place like Best Buy install the new processor
for $50 a pop, after getting a 'free' Pentium from Intel?  I personally 
like my PC based games, and don't want to see Intel get hit with such an
expecnse they have to really jack up the price on the next generation of 
chips.  
   "Oh, but Intel is a Big Company, therefore it is Evil and should be
hounded, with or without cause."
   Ugh. 

>Right.  We Doom players should shove our way in line ahead of the
>engineers and scientists who really need the fixed chips.  After all,
>there is an unlimited supply of the new chips so we should all get one
>immediately - none of this bullshit about determining who needs it
>the most.
   Of course.  If we're lucky, we can hit Intel with a $10,000,000,000,000,000
lawsuit as well for pain and suffering!
   Or even better, because of their flagrant disregard for the computing 
industry as a whole, they should just send out a fixed Pentium in the next
Publisher's Clearing House sweepstakes entry envelope.  That should get one
to just about every household.

    Eric [Tired of whiners.]