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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.

>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.

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.

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